AS400 System Administrator Senior Programmer

Overview

On Site
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - start date

Skills

COBOL
ODBC
AS400/iSeries system administration.
FTP/SFTP
HIS
XLPrint Paris
MVS/VSE JCL
Easytrieve Plus
MLOG

Job Details

Job Title: AS400 System Administrator Senior Programmer
Location: Cranston/Warwick, RI (Onsite required; up to 2 days/week remote with approval)
Schedule: Monday Friday, 8:30 AM 4:00 PM EST
Hours/week: 35

Position Summary:

IRG Clients is seeking a highly skilled IBM Power9 iSeries / AS400 System Administrator to manage, support, and maintain mission-critical systems. This role involves system administration of two AS400 environments (each with three LPARs: Production, UAT, Development), with additional responsibilities supporting IBM Mainframe systems. The ideal candidate will have experience with AS400, COBOL programming, and system integration, and will actively contribute to business continuity, disaster recovery, and modernization efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

AS400 / IBM iSeries System Administration

  • Manage and maintain IBM Power9 iSeries systems, HMC infrastructure, and legacy System/36 environment.
  • Perform system upgrades, PTF and firmware updates, monitor system health and security.
  • Configure and support AS400 applications, third-party software, and replication/DR tools.
  • Monitor job queues, subsystems, performance metrics, and disk space utilization.
  • Configure client emulation (Mocha, Rumba, BlueZone) and manage user/device profiles.
  • Ensure data integrity through journaling, secure object authorities, and backup processes.
  • Support network configurations including routing, host tables, and DNS.
  • Maintain and test disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans (BCP/COOP).
  • Generate system health documentation, SOPs, technical manuals, and compliance reports.

IBM Mainframe System Support (Optional/Desirable)

  • Assist in monitoring and supporting IBM Mainframe environments (MVS, VSE).
  • Perform system maintenance, patching, disk space analysis, and security reviews.
  • Troubleshoot runtime and job scheduling errors.
  • Review system logs (MLOG), job queues, and output queues.
  • Support legacy application modernization and migrations to third-party systems.

Required Skills and Experience:

  • 3 5+ years of AS400/iSeries system administration.
  • COBOL programming and experience in troubleshooting runtime errors.
  • Experience with GoAnywhere, ODBC, FTP/SFTP, HIS, XLPrint Paris, and terminal emulation tools.
  • Proficiency with databases: DB2, SQL, VSAM; including recovery, schema management, and performance tuning.
  • Familiarity with IBM OS utilities, MVS/VSE JCL, Easytrieve Plus, MLOG, system security tools.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate with technical staff, vendors, and business users.
  • Experience in documenting processes, creating SOPs, and conducting system audits.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in supporting IBM Mainframe environments.
  • Exposure to disaster recovery planning and execution.
  • Familiarity with Jira, MS Office Suite, Visio, and Teams.
  • Experience in application migration/conversion projects.
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