Automation Architect

**Why Kyndryl**

Our world has never been more alive with opportunities and, at Kyndryl, we’re ready to seize them. We design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl is at the heart of progress — dedicated to helping companies and people grow strong. Our people are actively discovering, co-creating, and strengthening. We push ourselves and each other to seek better, to go further, and we carry this energy to our customers. At Kyndryl, we want you to keep growing, and we’ll provide plenty of opportunities to make that happen.

**Your Role and Responsibilities**

Mission: Kyndryl is looking for highly motivated Automation architects to help drive the realization of the visions of cognitive cloud technologies.

**Job Description**:
Desired Attributes and Skills:

- Understanding of automation design techniques, methods and approaches
- Hands-on experience authoring, building and adopting large scale and robust automation frameworks across interfaces, back-end integration, tools and databases.
- The ability to understand and assimilate different points of view
- A strong desire to work with people in a team-focused environment
- Have prior exposure working in an AGILE environments/teams using methodologies such as, SCRUM, KANBAN and exposure to supporting tools
- Strong knowledge of orchestration platforms (both public and private)
- Natural leadership skills and the ability to thrive in a collaborative culture
- The willingness to take ownership of challenging tasks, even beyond your initial scope of responsibility
- The flexibility to travel to client locations
- Ability to implement right-fit automation implementations
- Have demonstratable experience implementing automation using accelerators, tools and partnering products
- Implementation of Automation testing solutions to provide Continuous Testing showing knowledge of CI/CD accelerators

**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Experience with designing various orchestration engagements using vRA/vRO, CloudForms, Ansible, Terraform, Python, AWS, Azure across virtualized services of Virtual Machines and Containers
- Strong understanding of vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator, Log Insights, Operations Insight, vSphere and vRA API’s
- Intermediate understanding of JSON/YAML
- Solid understanding of Cloud fundamentals, Automation Managed Services, Site Reliability Engineer responsibilities
- Hands on experience on one with various Cloud Providers: IBM Softlayer, AWS, Azure, etc.
- understanding of NSX, VSAN is a plus

**Preferred Technical and Professional Experience**
- You must be degree qualified with a minimum Bachelor degree in an applicable field
- You must have minimum 10 year’s experience in the automation discipline
- You must have minimum 4 year’s experience in leading automation solutions and delivering automation designs to complex technology landscapes.
- At least 2 years exposure to DevOps techniques and tools (such as Jenkins, Chef, SVN, SourceSafe and etc).

**Required Education**

Bachelor's Degree

**Preferred Education**

Master's Degree

Kyndryl is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. Kyndryl is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Other things to know**

**Primary Job Category**

Software Development & Support

**Role (Job Role)**

Software Developer

**Employment Type**

Full-Time

**Contract Type**

Regular

**Position Type**

Professional

**Travel Required**

No Travel

**Company**

(Y030) Kyndryl Solutions Private Limited

**Is this role a commissionable / sales incentive based position**

No