SQL Server Team has announced that in CTP 1.4 you can schedule tasks using SQL Server Agent! That was one of the pain things at least for me – I usually have lot of tasks in the SQL Server Agent in my environments. Seems to me that as of now I will be able to test also on Linux.
I have copied the code from the blog just to show how simple it is to use SQL Server Agent 
Good thing is that the stored procedures used to configure, manage and run the jobs have the same names in Linux like they have in SQL Server running on Windows
Here is a simple example:
CREATE DATABASE SampleDB ;
USE msdb ;
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_add_job
@job_name = N’Daily SampleDB Backup’ ;
GO
- Add one or more job steps
EXEC sp_add_jobstep
@job_name = N’Daily SampleDB Backup’,
@step_name = N’Backup database’,
@subsystem = N’TSQL’,
@command = N’BACKUP DATABASE SampleDB TO DISK = \
N”/var/opt/mssql/data/SampleDB.bak” WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, \
NAME = ”SampleDB-full”, SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10′,
@retry_attempts = 5,
@retry_interval = 5 ;
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_add_schedule
@schedule_name = N’Daily SampleDB’,
@freq_type = 4,
@freq_interval = 1,
@active_start_time = 233000 ;
USE msdb ;
GO
- Attach the schedule and add the job server
EXEC sp_attach_schedule
@job_name = N’Daily SampleDB Backup’,
@schedule_name = N’Daily SampleDB’;
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_add_jobserver
@job_name = N’Daily SampleDB Backup’,
@server_name = N'(LOCAL)’;
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_start_job N’ Daily SampleDB Backup’ ;
GO
You can read the SQL Server blog post here: http://bit.ly/2mUwjl4
Cheers
Damian