As400 Systems Programmer

Job Title: AS400 Systems Programmer

Duration: 1 Year+

Location: Cranston, RI (Occasional travel might be required from Cranston to Warwick)

Job description:

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

Experience and skills to support and perform the duties and responsibilities described above.
Minimum 3-5 years' experience
Ability to communicate effectively with staff and engage business, technical resources, and support vendors
COBOL programming experience
AS400 Administration experience
Go Anywhere Integration, ODBC, SFTP, FTP, Mocha, Rumba, Blue Zone emulation software, and HIS system experience
Expertise in creating tables, dropping tables, adding fields, indexes, maintaining and resolving database issues, and database recovery processes (various databases Ex: DB2, SQL, SQL/DS, VSAM databases)
Familiarity with IBM OS utilities, MVS JCL, VSE JCL, Easytrieve Plus, Message Log (MLOG) and intrinsic functions
Experience with XL Print Paris (forms & programming), Visio, MS Office, Teams, Jira and other common tools
Other experience as necessary to perform the system administration and programming tasks required. Database recovery
Troubleshoot and work with affected agencies to resolve problems.
Experience in application conversion to outside vendors

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

IBM Power 9 I Series (AS400) Systems Programming (System 36 and Native Mode)
Maintain, upgrade, monitor and report on all IBM iSeries systems and HMC infrastructure, including PTFs and firmware upgrades, errors, failures, and security aspects
Maintain and monitor daily and system backups along with Replication/DR processes
Maintain system journaling of databases
Research and resolve systems issues as needed
Manages installation, and configuration of AS400 software applications, including third party software and system management tools.
Engage with third party vendors and support as needed
Assist with client emulation configuration and connectivity
Manages AS400 user and device configuration
Manages and helps update AS400 security policies
Support interfaces between DLT and other agencies. Manages security and networking interconnectivity between systems.
Assist with developing, maintaining and executing disaster recovery protocols for the agency devices and integration with Enterprise teams as well as perform periodic testing
Assist with technical and business process with development of Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans
Assist EOC operators and programmers with runtime errors
Check and maintain network configurations, routing, host tables and DNS.
Performance Monitoring: Utilize performance tools to analyze system performance metrics. Identify any performance bottlenecks and take corrective actions, including but not limited to performance, critical messages, errors.
System Values: Maintain and review system values to ensure they are configured for security and performance.
Subsystem Monitoring: Review subsystems to ensure they are running optimally. Check for any subsystem-related errors or performance issues.
Disk Space: Review disk space utilization and run disk reports to address issues.
Job Queues and Job Scheduler: Deploy new jobs into the schedule, examine job queue configuration. Review the job scheduler to ensure scheduled jobs are running as expected and report on success/failure and triage exceptions for all scheduled items including but not limited to scheduled jobs, file transfers, file locks, message waiting, email alert and report notifications. Security: Maintain and review user profiles and system values to ensure proper user system access and security. Check object authorities to sensitive objects and data.
Backup and Recovery: Confirm that regular backups are scheduled and completed successfully. Verify the integrity of backup media and perform a test restore if requested. Currently leveraging legacy tapes in a tape library, LaserVault.
Network Configuration: Check network configurations, routing, host tables and DNS.
Performance Monitoring: Utilize performance tools like Performance Navigator or IBM Navigator to analyze system performance metrics. Identify any performance bottlenecks and take corrective actions.
Journaling and Logging: Review journals and receivers. Check system logs (DSPLOG) for any unusual or critical messages.
Printing and Output Queues: Verify that printers and output queues are configured correctly. Monitor for any spool file issues or printer errors.
Backup and Recovery Plan: Ensure there is a well-documented backup and recovery plan is in place. Test and maintain plan.
Monitors and provides system health check documentation
Develop and maintain up-to-date documentation on the system's configuration, settings, and document any changes
Assist in developing technical documentation and Standard Operating Procedures
Assist with technical documentation, audits, reviews, and processes
Provide technical expertise to implement best practices
Provide operational, status, and other reports as requested
Engage with third part vendors and support teams as required