1. A method for managing a storage system cluster, comprising: executing a job manager at a storage system within the cluster by a processor operatively connected to the storage system; loading a job object by the job manager onto a distributed data store operatively connected to the cluster; determining whether the job object has an affinity for a particular storage system within the cluster to process the job object; and in response to the job object having the affinity for the particular storage system to process the job object, retrieving the job object from the distributed data store, and processing the job object at a particular job manager executing at the particular storage system.