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
Key Responsibilities:
Design and govern enterprise infrastructure architectures across compute, storage, backup, virtualization, and data center environments.
Develop infrastructure blueprints, technical designs, standards, and architecture documentation.
Lead infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, and resource management to ensure scalability and optimal performance.
Design and maintain High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), backup, and business continuity solutions.
Evaluate and optimize infrastructure platforms by identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and capacity constraints.
Review and approve infrastructure solutions to ensure alignment with architecture standards, operational requirements, and best practices.
Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to support infrastructure deployment, modernization, and lifecycle management.
Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise on infrastructure architecture, virtualization, capacity management, and resiliency planning.
Evaluate emerging infrastructure technologies and advise clients on suitability, risks, dependencies, benefits, and implementation considerations.
Drive modern engineering and operations practices including automation, DevSecOps, observability, FinOps, SRE principles, infrastructure-as-code, platform engineering, and operational resilience.
Support AI-enabled transformation by ensuring infrastructure readiness for AI workloads, data platforms, model hosting, GPU/accelerated compute where applicable, secure connectivity, observability, and scalable platform operations
Your Future at Kyndryl
Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career. We have opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your 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 Experience and Skills:
10+ years of overall experience
4+ years' relevant experience in banking or financial services
1. Core Infrastructure Design Compute
Storage, backup architecture
Data Center design, management
Infrastructure resource sizing & capacity management
Compute/storage virtualization
Architecture / technical environment design and documentation
2. Operations, Capacity & Performance
Performance bottleneck identification & resolution
Capacity Planning
HA and DR architecture alignment
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, or equivalent.
MCA, M.Tech, M.Sc., or equivalent postgraduate qualification is acceptable.
MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification is desirable.
Being You
The “Kyn” in Kyndryl means kinship, which represents the strong bonds we have with each other, our customers and our communities. We focus on ensuring all Kyndryls feel included and we welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We believe in growth, and we’re excited to see what you can bring. At Kyndryl, employee feedback has told us that our number one driver of employee engagement is belonging. That sense of belonging — being a valued, respected, trusted member of the team — is fundamental to our culture and fueling great experiences for our customers. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you the ability to thrive and contribute to our culture of empathy and shared success. That’s The Kyndryl Way.
What You Can Expect
Your career with us isn’t just a job—it’s an adventure with purpose. We offer a dynamic, hybrid-friendly culture that supports your well-being and empowers you to grow. Our Be Well programs are thoughtfully designed to support your financial, mental, physical, and social health—because we know that when you feel your best, you do your best.
From your very first day, you’ll dive into impactful work that powers the systems our customers rely on every day. You won’t just contribute—you’ll make a difference, tackling meaningful projects that sharpen your skills and fuel your growth.
We’re here to champion your journey. With powerful tools to chart your career path, personalized development goals aligned with your ambitions, and continuous feedback to keep you inspired and on track, you’ll have everything you need to thrive and evolve. You’ll develop in-demand skills to grow your career and achieve your ambitions with access to cutting-edge learning opportunities—from certifications with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to coaching and hands-on experiences. And through it all, you’ll be part of a culture that values empathy, restless learning, and a devotion to shared success.
We want you to thrive here—and we’re committed to helping you do just that. Ready to make an impact? Join us and help shape what’s next.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, enterprise technology, IT transformation, cloud infrastructure, data centre modernisation, or large-scale infrastructure delivery
- Strong understanding of compute, storage, network, data centre, virtualisation, software-defined infrastructure, private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, container platforms, backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure operations
- Experience defining infrastructure target-state architectures, modernisation roadmaps, architecture standards, governance models, design review processes, and technical decision frameworks
- Delivery experience in infrastructure assessment, capacity management, resource sizing, technical framework definition, performance optimisation, and infrastructure migration
- Experience with infrastructure migration across on-premise, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid environments
- Ability to create and review architecture/design documents and provide architecture assurance for project and implementation teams
- Experience identifying and resolving infrastructure performance issues, bottlenecks, capacity constraints, availability gaps, and operational risks
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure security, regulatory compliance, resilience, high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and sensitive data protection
- Experience with at least one major public cloud platform such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud and private cloud/virtualisation environments such as VMware, Hyper-V, OpenShift, Kubernetes
- Familiarity with tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub, Azure DevOps, monitoring/observability platforms, ITSM tooling, CMDB, backup/recovery tools, and infrastructure management platforms
- Understanding of automation, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD for infrastructure, policy-as-code, DevSecOps, observability, FinOps, SRE, and platform engineering practices
- Ability to develop business cases, infrastructure transformation roadmaps, architecture blueprints, executive-level recommendations, and implementation guidance
- Strong stakeholder management, presentation, and executive communication skills
- Ability to work across infrastructure, application, security, cloud, data, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, or equivalent (MCA, M.Tech, M.Sc. acceptable)
- MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification
- 5+ years experience in banking or financial services
- Experience designing or reviewing infrastructure for core banking, payment systems, enterprise applications, high-volume transaction platforms, and regulated workloads
- Hands-on or working experience with Enterprise Architecture tools such as Mega HOPEX, Avolution ABACUS, Planview, Orbus iServer, or equivalent
- OEM or expert-level certifications across compute, storage, network, virtualisation, cloud, cybersecurity, or infrastructure platforms
- Familiarity with AI infrastructure patterns, GPU/accelerated compute, data platform architecture, secure model hosting, vector databases, and AI observability
- Exposure to zero-trust infrastructure, network segmentation, software-defined networking, cloud security posture management, workload protection, identity-based security, and infrastructure compliance automation
Kyndryl Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kyndryl and has not been reviewed or approved by Kyndryl.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered good in some roles, with mentions of “good pay,” “great pay and benefits,” and an “acceptable salary range” paired with bonuses. Certain senior or consulting tracks are described as market-competitive.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Vacation, paid time off, holidays, and a dedicated volunteer day are highlighted as positives. Parental leave exists companywide alongside sick leave and disability coverage.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Remote and hybrid flexibility is emphasized, including 100% remote roles and a formal flexible workplace policy. Well‑being resources such as the Be Well program and an EAP are available.
Kyndryl Insights
What We Do
We have the world’s best talent that design, run, and manage the most advanced and reliable technology infrastructure each day. Together, we think holistically about the health of these vital technology ecosystems. We are a focused, independent company that builds on our foundation of excellence by creating systems in new ways. Bringing in the right partners, investing in our business, and working side-by-side with our customers to unlock potential. We're raising the bar. Our experience speaks for itself: We have 90,000 highly skilled employees around the world serving 75 of the Fortune 100. But our purpose is what drives us: Advancing the vital systems that power human progress. Because when a digital ecosystem is healthy, it can more readily adapt and support continuous growth and that opens up a world of possibility for everyone.
