Jamming here will be highly profitable, and is a very reasonable move. You’re nowhere near close enough to the bubble for ICM to be a consideration, and you need to be looking for spots to steal before your stack shrinks to where you have no fold equity. Hands as weak as A2o,K4s,Q8s (and many more) are unexploitable shoves off 17bb from the button.

Making a small raise is another option, and in most live games I would lean in that direction, unless I think blinds are particularly aggro and/or likely to reshove lighter than they would call a shove. Online I’m a little more likely to go with the unexploitable shove. This reminds me of something theginger45 posted a couple days back, which I found kind of inspiring (added motivation to keep improving).

theginger45 said:

I had a conversation with Matt Berkey recently where he told me, “I can’t remember the last time I shoved 15bb from the button”. The better you get at poker, the more you should be okay with raising off a short stack, because it creates extra decision points in the game tree for you to leverage your edge.

I think it takes a lot of skill to navigate these situations postflop, and jamming is likely more profitable for players that aren’t comfortable playing wide ranges with short stacks. I think a very skilled player will find ways to make the small-raise approach much more profitable than open-shoving, but you’re definitely not making a mistake by jamming this. If your only reason for not wanting to jam is to lower variance, I would highly recommend closing your eyes and shoving your chips into the middle. 

If you want to improve your wide range shortstacked postflop play, I think heads up SNGs and 4max MTTs are great places to practice.