Cloud Sre

**Who We Are**

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward - always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.

**The Role**

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.

At Kyndryl we support all major cloud platforms, so you’ll get the chance to use everything you know - and then some. You’ll also become expert at knowing when and how to call on other SMEs outside your wheelhouse. Thinking your way around pre-existing limitations will grow your creativity and flexibility. You’ll learn a lot here, and if you want to work toward certifications there are plenty of opportunities.The rewards for all this are many. You’ll get to influence, create, and deliver something from start to finish. You will have the power to delight our clients.

Your future at Kyndryl
This role opens the door to many career paths, both vertical and horizontal, and there may be opportunity to travel. It’s a great chance for database administrators or other techs to break into the cloud. It’s also a solid path to become enterprise or chief architect or a distinguished engineer Whatever you see for yourself, you’ll find the opportunity here.

**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

- Experience in technical architect role using service and hosting solutions such as public cloud IaaS, PaaS platforms

- Hand on (Terraform/Ansible/GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, Puppet, Chef) experience

- Hands-on multi-tier architecting skills.

- Sound knowledge of Infrastructure design (Compute, Storage, Network)

- Hands-on cloud security (End point & Portal security using AWS Security Hub, AWS Inspector, AWS WAF, AWS Guard duty)

- 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

- 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. - 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

**Certifications Required**:
- AWS Solutions Architect - Professional

Optional certifications:
- AWS Developer Associate, AWS DevOps Professional, AWS Specialty

- Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins etc
- MS Project or other Project Management software
- Excellent written and verbal communication