Cloud Architect

Job Summary

Infrastructure Architects are the key link between Kyndryl and our clients. You're in a technical leadership role, uniting and guiding stakeholders from clients, governance, and project executives to delivery and sometimes even the vendors who work with the client. You'll be there from the start of a project understanding what's needed and figuring out the best technical solution. And you'll be there at the finish, delivering the right product on time and within budget.

As an Infrastructure Architect, you'll draw upon the full breadth of your talent and experience. This is a technical leadership role, so we want you to bring your vision, knowledge, and leadership to each project. To the client, you're the subject matter expert consulting early, gathering inputs, understanding what they need from our solution. You define what Kyndryl can do to meet this solution. You design the best solution for the job. And finally, you're the tech leader for implementation.

Responsibilities

• Participate and lead architecture workshops, working directly with technical teams from AWS enterprise customers and partners to provide unique solutions to our customers individual needs for their application deployment.
• Lead the builds of CloudFormation templates, Chef cookbooks and scripts to automate and deploy AWS resources and config changes.
• Collaborate and help build utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and your fellow AWS Engineers to operate safely at high speed and wide scale.
• Assists customers architect advanced cloud-based solutions on AWS and help with designing migrating strategies for existing workloads from Data centers to the cloud.
• Perform periodic architecture reviews and suggest further improvements to enhance application performance, Cost Optimization etc
• Document the technical framework and workflow of the architecture.
• Experience in delivering immutable infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet and CloudFormation etc.
• Experience in DevSecOps implementation projects as SRE/lead (designing DevOps solutions, setting up CI/CD pipelines, infra-automation, monitoring tools etc.).
• Source Code Management, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using tools like AWS DevOps, Terraform, Jenkins, Chef etc.,
• Setup/configure CI/CD pipeline leveraging AWS native services or traditional DevOps tools (e.g. Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory.
• Strong skills in implementing pipelines and integrating tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, GitHub Actions, JIRA, Argo, Go, Urban Code, ElK, jfrog, Slack, Selenium, SonarQube or other equivalent tools
• Terraform, CI/CD, Automation, GitOps, GKE Automation, Anthos Config Mgmt, GCVE Automation
• Ability to automate infrastructure, platform deployments, and configuration workflows using Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices, Anthos Config Management, and GCVE automation frameworks.

Who You Are

You're good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused, someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you're open and borderless, naturally inclusive in how you work with others.

Required Technical and Professional Experience

• Solid understanding of Data Center mainly Systems, Storage, Networking & Security, Application & Databases
• Understanding of Systems and Solutions Architecture
• Hands-on experience & learning with Data Center technologies, Cloud Software, and interoperability
• 8+ Experience in technical architect role using service and hosting solutions such as public cloud IaaS, PaaS platforms - GCP primarily & AWS Secondary
• Hands-on experience in cloud-native architecture design, implementation of distributed, fault-tolerant enterprise applications for Cloud (GCP / AWS)
• Hand on (Terraform/Ansible/GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, Puppet, Chef) experience
• Hands-on multi-tier architecting skills.
• Sound knowledge of Infrastructure design (Compute, Storage, Network) on GCP / AWS
• Hands-on cloud security (GCP / AWS)
• Linux & Windows Hands on Expertise
• Strong knowledge & Hands-on scripting language: YAML, Python, Shell, Bash, Powershell etc
• Expertise in Build tools like Jenkins to build re-usable release pipelines, release and configuration management tools like Chef/Puppet/Ansible platforms
• Experience in at least one configuration management tool (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Maven etc.)

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Certifications Required - GCP
• Professional Cloud Architect
• Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• Cloud Developer / DevOps Engineer
• Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins etc
• Certifications Required - AWS
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional
• Optional certifications:
• AWS Developer Associate, AWS DevOps Professional, AWS Specialty
• MS Project or other Project Management software
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to interact confidently with stakeholders of all levels

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