Infrastructure Architect

**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
- Deep understanding of various infra components such as Compute, Storage & Network and arrive at best fit architecture for various infra platforms within the enterprise.
- Strong delivery experience in assessing business needs, capacity management, infra resource sizing and technical framework.
- Skills in migration of IT infrastructure platforms (On-premise / Cloud / Hybrid).
- Skills in infra design of Data centers, connectivity, migration and Management.
- Ability to write architecture / design documents and review design documents provided by Project teams
- Knowledge of infrastructure elements and requirements related to infra virtualization, Software-defined Infrastructure, Private/Public cloud / container platforms.
- Skills in Infrastructure implementation, integration, migration and infra management tools.
- Ability to identify and resolve performance issues and bottlenecks.
- Ability to manage individual infrastructure components and IT services to ensure they meet current and future demands
- Expert level OEM certifications on Infrastructure (Compute/Storage/Network) preferred.
- Sharp technical skills to solve issues.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.

**Job Profile**
- Set up technical standards and governance structure for the enterprise.
- To provide technology architecture expertise and guidance across multiple business divisions & technology domains.
- Assist business strategy and accordingly drive technology strategy from an architecture perspective.
- Setting up technical standards, formulation of Enterprise Architecture (EA) Governance Framework.
- Define/ maintain Target Architectures in Roadmaps.
- Lead and/or assist efforts to scope and architect major change programs, leading strategic options analysis & proposing end-to-end solutions & highlighting trade-offs.
- Review ongoing designs of major programs to identify strategic opportunities and resolve design issues during delivery.
- Identify key technology enablers to optimize IT investment.
- Develop highly complex solutions that exemplifies quality optimization regarding reliability, availability, scalability, manageability, flexibility, usability/ reusability, and high performance.
- Deliver Architecture solutions in a Banking environment at the highest-level technical expertise.
- Lead other IT Architects to provide effective consulting on complex projects including RFP technical evaluations for various business domain.
- As an architect the person would be responsible for suggestion and implementation of new technologies.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders in IT infra domain, IT-vendors, and other architects to achieve enterprise business goals.
- Create Secure IT Infrastructure Architecture and roadmap that result in