AWS Infrastructure/Cloud 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.

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.

• Participate and lead architecture workshops, working directly with technical teams from AWS enterprise customers and partners to provide unique solutions to customers' individual needs for application deployment.

• Lead the builds of CloudFormation templates, Chef cookbooks, and scripts to automate and deploy AWS resources and configuration changes.

• Collaborate and help build utilities and tools for internal use that enable AWS Engineers to operate safely at high speed and wide scale.

• Leverage day-to-day experiences to provide the voice of the customer to internal AWS teams.

• Assist customers in architecting advanced cloud-based solutions on AWS and help with designing migration strategies for existing workloads from data centers to the cloud.

• Ensure that industry best practices for security, data backup, and user management are enforced within architecture designs.

• Perform periodic architecture reviews and suggest further improvements to enhance application performance.

• Liaise technically between customers, Cloud Engineers, and vendor support teams.

• Conduct internal trainings for the internal support team on new cloud services and their use cases.

• Assist SMEs during critical incidents as required.

• Document customer environment architecture and maintain updated versions post periodic reviews.

• Document the technical framework and workflow of the architecture.
  

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.