SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING FAULT TOLERANT JOB MANAGEMENT IN A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting fault tolerant job management for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a job manager that manages the execution of jobs within the cloud environment including their job states, and a job manager service that provides an application program interface which receives administrative commands to be processed within the cloud environment as jobs. The job manager supports fault tolerant job processing including associating the jobs with checkpoints, recognizing a failover command for the jobs, and associating the jobs with work units of the administrative commands, and storing a state for each job upon processing each work unit of the command.