AS400 Systems Administrator

<h2>Job Description:</h2><ul>
<li>Provide L2 support for IBM AS/400 / IBM i systems and applications</li>
<li>Monitor system health, jobs, subsystems, message queues, and batch schedules</li>
<li>Perform incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution</li>
<li>Manage user profiles, object authorities, and security access</li>
<li>Review logs, investigate errors, and resolve job or program failures</li>
<li>Monitor interfaces, file transfers (FTP/SFTP), MQ, and data flows</li>
<li>Perform backup and restore activities (BRMS and native backups)</li>
<li>Support change implementations and post-incident documentation</li>
<li>Coordinate with L2, L3, and external vendors</li>
<li>Participate in on-call or shift-based production support</li>
</ul><h2>Requirements</h2><h2>Qualifications:</h2><ul><li><strong>At least 1 to 2 years of hands-on experience with IBM AS/400 / IBM i and OS/400</strong></li></ul><ul>
<li>Strong knowledge of job control, subsystems, job queues, and message queues</li>
<li>Experience with spool file management, performance monitoring, and licensing</li>
<li><strong>L2 application support experience in production environments</strong></li>
<li><strong>Basic knowledge of RPG/RPGLE and CL/CLLE (COBOL is a plus)</strong></li>
<li><strong>DB2 for i fundamentals and basic SQL query skills</strong></li>
<li><strong>Experience with schedulers (Control-M, Tivoli) and ticketing tools (ServiceNow, Jira)</strong></li>
<li>Understanding of batch vs online processing and Dev/UAT/Prod environments</li>
<li><strong>Knowledgeable with MIMIX</strong></li>
<li><strong>Basic Linux and Windows system awareness</strong></li>
</ul><h2>Preferred Skills:</h2><ul>
<li><em><strong>AS/400 modernization or migration experience</strong></em></li>
<li><em><strong>DevOps or automation exposure on IBM i</strong></em></li>
<li><em><strong>Banking, retail, or manufacturing domain experience</strong></em></li>
<li><em><strong>SaaS or large-scale enterprise production support background</strong></em></li>
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