Cobol AS/400 Developer - The Computer Merchant, Ltd
Cranston, RI 02920
About the Job
JOB TITLE: Cobol AS/400 Developer
JOB LOCATION: Cranston, RI
WAGE RANGE*: $50-55
JOB NUMBER: 24-01623
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: 5 years
AS 400
COBOL
JOB DESCRIPTION
Cobol AS/400 Developer -
Current infrastructure IBM I5 Series (AS400) and continued Operations and Maintenance on IBM I9 series.
This supports the Unemployment Insurance and Temporary Disability Insurance Systems.
We currently have a project to upgrade our current I5's to the I9 series. Once the upgrade is completed, this Contractor would be responsible for:
Responsibilities and Duties
Skills: iSeries-Platform-AS400 Experience: 5+ years
Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled
* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.
JOB LOCATION: Cranston, RI
WAGE RANGE*: $50-55
JOB NUMBER: 24-01623
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: 5 years
AS 400
COBOL
JOB DESCRIPTION
Cobol AS/400 Developer -
Current infrastructure IBM I5 Series (AS400) and continued Operations and Maintenance on IBM I9 series.
This supports the Unemployment Insurance and Temporary Disability Insurance Systems.
We currently have a project to upgrade our current I5's to the I9 series. Once the upgrade is completed, this Contractor would be responsible for:
Responsibilities and Duties
- Performing IBM iSeries, administration of security and roles within UI and TDI Applications.
- Perform deployments to Production as part of the system development life cycle.
- Perform capacity planning, performance monitoring, analysis and required tuning
- Testing operating system and application software releases, and loading fixes in both test and productions environments
- Developing and maintaining procedures for system utilities, such as backups, restores, and configurations and performing daily and weekly backups of production systems and other backups as required.
- Install, upgrade, configure, test and maintain 3rd party software applications.
- Develop/maintain Disaster Recovery Plans and coordinate/perform Disaster Recovery Testing
- Implement the internal and external auditing requirements and enforce IRS Publication 1075 requirements.
- Prepare and Lead quarterly capacity reviews, covering but not limited to: current period growth, trends, next period forecast, concerns and replenishment recommendations
- Patch maintenance and troubleshooting - Keeping up-to-date patch-levels as per policies.
- Prepare, Plan and Implement OS Upgrade and troubleshoot upgrade issues
- HMC and LPAR management, which includes the Firmware and Service pack upgrades
- Maintenance of all IBM i systems and related hardware
- Maintenance of communication between IBM I systems and other systems as required.
- Interact with vendors on regular basis to resolve technical issues
- Maintain optimal storage of the IBM i servers by running regular housekeeping jobs.
- Provide support for Application team in running production critical jobs and reports.
- Create and Maintain schedules and documentation of all critical processes.
Skills: iSeries-Platform-AS400 Experience: 5+ years
Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled
* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.
Source : The Computer Merchant, Ltd
