IBM i Administrator/Consultant

at Insight Global, LLC in Morton, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Job Description

WS1 – Audit Log Forwarding

- Implement native IBM i CL program to collect QAUDJRN and QHST events in RFC5424 syslog format and forward to the bank’s internal Filebeat collector (port 514 TCP), which ships to Logz.io. Deliverables: compiled and scheduled CL program (5-min interval); least-privilege service account; verified end-to-end log flow confirmed in Logz.io; Mermaid architecture diagram; troubleshooting and maintenance guide.

WS2 – Assure Security Remediation

- Remediate 25 HIGH risk findings from a Precisely Assure Security review. Full findings report provided at engagement start. Deliverables: all 25 findings remediated and tested on test partition; formal risk acceptance documentation for any finding not resolvable within engagement scope; remediation status report suitable for Precisely and FFIEC examination.

WS3 – Service Monitoring & Auto-Restart

- Implement native IBM i monitoring for up to 10 critical services agreed at kickoff. Deliverables: monitoring for each agreed service using native IBM i mechanisms; automated CL restart logic where safe; alerting via message queue or email for services needing human intervention; per-service documentation covering detection, recovery behavior, and escalation path.

WS4 – Morning & Night Ops Automation

- Automate existing manual morning and night ops checklists. No development begins until current-state checklists are documented and approved. Deliverables: documented and approved current-state checklists; automated CL job streams with sequential validation and descriptive failure alerts; morning and night ops runbook covering automated flow, manual override, and step-level restart.

WS5 – Network Traffic Logging

- Assess IBM i 7.4 native capabilities for inbound/outbound traffic logging and implement a solution feeding into the Logz.io pipeline. Deliverables: written assessment of native capabilities; approved recommended approach; implemented logging solution (subject to Bank approval of approach); suggested Logz.io alert rule definitions for anomalous traffic patterns.

WS6 – User Roles & Access Review

- Create least-privilege service accounts for all automated workstreams. Review existing IBM i user profiles for excessive authorities and workflow improvements. Deliverables: service accounts for WS1, WS3, WS4; findings report covering all profiles with special authorities (*ALLOBJ, *SECADM, *JOBCTL, *SERVICE, *SAVSYS); implemented approved access changes; user and role documentation package suitable for FFIEC examination.

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Skills and Requirements

- IBM i CL Programming: CRTCLPGM, SBMJOB, ADDJOBSCDE, RUNSQL; job stream design with sequential dependencies, conditional execution, and failure handling; sub-hourly scheduling patterns

- IBM i Db2 SQL Services: QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL with GENERATE_SYSLOG; QSYS2.HISTORY_LOG_INFO; QSYS2.ACTIVE_JOB_INFO; time-bounded queries; CCSID casting between 1200 and 37

- IBM i Security: Least-privilege service account design; GRTOBJAUT; RVKOBJAUT; CRTUSRPRF; special authority review; *EXCLUDE authority

- IBM i Audit Journaling: QAUDJRN configuration and authority; QAUDCTL and QAUDLVL system values; PTF Group SF99704 level verification

- IBM i Networking: Outbound TCP; syslog RFC5424; port 514; CFGTCP; NETSTAT

- IBM i Ops Automation: Message queue monitoring; RCVMSG; SNDMSG; SNDDST; subsystem and job status checking; automated CL restart logic

- Security Assessment: Assure Security (Precisely), Powertech, or IBM i Security Scan remediation experience – HIGH risk finding categories: system values, default passwords, excessive special authorities, exit point security, network security

- Highly preferred to have someone with experience working in regulated industries (banking, finance, healthcare etc)