Senior Cloud Architect

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Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we run and reimagine the mission-critical technology systems that drive advantage for the world's leading businesses. We are at the heart of progress; with proven expertise and a continuous flow of AI-powered insight, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a lasting competitive edge. For our people-Kyndryls-that means doing purposeful work that powers human progress. Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive.

The Role

At Kyndryl, we run and reimagine the mission-critical technology systems that drive advantage for the world's leading businesses. We are at the heart of progress; with proven expertise and a continuous flow of AI-powered insight, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a lasting competitive edge. For our people-Kyndryls-that means doing purposeful work that powers human progress. Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive.

Are you an innovative thinker who loves to solve complex problems? Are you excited about finding ways to bridge the gap between technology and business needs? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as an Senior Cloud Architect.

As a Senior Cloud Architect with us, you will have the chance to work with some of the world's most innovative and dynamic companies, helping them to achieve their business goals through the strategic implementation of technology. You will be responsible for connecting our customers' business needs with their IT strategy, using a range of architectural models and views to create a clear picture of how their requirements can be met in an agile, sustainable, and flexible way.

To excel in this role, you will need to be able to understand our customers' needs and constraints, and apply industry knowledge and best practices to develop effective IT solutions.

You will work closely with customers to understand their unique challenges and use your expertise to develop a high-level enterprise-wide IT architecture that maps IT capabilities to business needs. You will be expected to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction by

providing comprehensive knowledge of our solutions offerings, strategies, and direction as it relates to the customer's business, infrastructure, and industry.

In addition to your technical skills, you will also need to be a skilled communicator, able to influence customers and sell our solutions using your in-depth knowledge of leading-edge technology solutions and your understanding of their business and industry.

If you're passionate about connecting an organization's business mission to its IT strategy, designing solutions that are effective, agile, sustainable, and flexible, and enjoy working with a talented team of IT professionals - we'd love to hear from you. Join us at Kyndryl as Senior Cloud Architect and help build a better digital future for our customers

Your Future at Kyndryl
Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career, from a Junior Architect to Principal Architect - we have opportunities for that you won't find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud solutions for production workloads with high reliability, scalability, and security
• Support cloud assessments, current-state analysis, application/infrastructure discovery and technical requirement clarification.
• Guide the implementation of secure, scalable and reliable cloud solutions across enterprise environments.
• Identify and apply security and compliance frameworks (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO27001, CIS)
• Build and manage container architectures (i.e. Kubernetes, Openshift)
• Develop automation solutions with IaC
• Support DevSecOps implementation activities, including CI/CD pipelines, code repositories, automated controls, security checks and deployment automation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver solution designs and technical roadmaps

• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud solutions.
• Strong knowledge of the core Cloud Services.
• Experience coaching/leading technical teams or technical workstreams in transformation, migration, modernization or infrastructure projects.
• Ability to work effectively in customer-facing delivery contexts.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to interact with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluent Italian and good English communication skills.

• Certifications on one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
• Experience supporting pre-sales, solutioning or technical proposal activities.
• Experience with Agile delivery, technical governance, design authority boards or architecture review processes.
• Experience in hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments.
• Experience collaborating within delivery teams, working closely with engineers and architects in hands-on cloud delivery and customer-facing projects.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent experience.

• Cloud Platforms + certifications (Azure or AWS or GCP)
• Virtualization and Hybrid Infrastructure (VmWare)
• Containers and Platform Services (Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift)
• Automation and DevOps
• Security, Resilience and Governance

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