Kyndryl, Inc. Hiring for Site Reliability Engineer at BANGALORE, India Full Time

Your Role and Responsibilities

Kyndryl is looking for leaders who are passionate about helping some of the world’s biggest companies to successfully achieve their Data Center and Application Transformation. Do you know enough about Hybrid Cloud, Data Center Infrastructure, Hypervisors, Databases, Linux/Unix, Application Modernization or Migration Consulting to help our customers to move their workloads from Anywhere to Anywhere? Can you break that knowledge down for our clients to show them their opportunities and solve their risks?

The Business unit Applications, Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AD&AI) brings together professionals worldwide who advise, design, build, migrate, and transform IT infrastructures, complex systems & architectures, and fundamental services on which the world relies.

Our organization is based on several practices in the world grouping all our teams around these missions:

• Technology & Architecture Consulting

• Cloud Advisory Services

• Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Services

• Cloud Migration & Modernization Services

• Application Modernization Services

• NextGen Network & Edge Computing

• Project Portfolio Management

Our expertise is based on advice and the implementation of methods and solutions that support our clients during their digital transformations. Join us to identify each of these opportunities, grow within an organization focused on digital changes and thus co-create the future with our customers.

Our Site Reliability Engineer provides technical leadership to the Application Modernization Team involved in the migration projects to support each phase like the assessment/discovery, planning, design, and migration execution. To identify the Current Operational Model documentation and define the move method and/or solution performance or execution issues happening on the Control Plane. Provide a clear vision of Future State operational model documentation.

They serve as point of contact for client applications and associated migration questions. The SRE should have a good understanding of application architectures, application dependencies, middleware, databases, containerization (e.g., OpenShift, Tanzu, Kubernetes, Azure Container Service – AKS, ACI, AWS EKS) and/or Cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure or GCP) with related migration tools and approach, leveraging his Agile mindset and applying it effectively.

Kyndryl is making a big bet on Cloud, Cloud Native technologies, application modernization and more, and we need people who have a deep technical background expertise in the technologies that will make our customers successful. To be a SRE at Kyndryl you should be ready to be hands on from technical solutioning, project startup, implementation, and project close.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Deliverable based driven

• Client Facing Success Driven

• Client Satisfaction Focused

• Strong & Trusted relationships with clients

• Business Growth Passion

• Problem Solver & Creative Thinker

• Desired Outcome Focused

• Diligent and Engaging Communicator

• Timely and Accurate information keeper

• Works without supervision and strong collaboration

• Performs and Balances tasks on multiple concurrent projects across multiple customers

• Understands department/ functional mission and vision

• Exposed to demands of travel and irregular work hours

• Solution creation based on requirements

• Team leader

• Mentoring your peers

Responsibilities:

• Working with project managers, and platform specialists to drive assessment, discovery, and migrations

• Attend client workshops to articulate scope, method, and approach, working with subject matter experts to build and execute migration strategy and solve migration issues, co-creating and developing a viable solution

• Assess customer workloads, qualifying applications that are suitable for migration from a business and financial standpoint while developing the high-level statement of work

• Remediate and adapt client architectures to take advantage of the Cloud

• Identifying technical solutions to migration milestones, using best practices and blueprints, in order to guide client teams to implement them

• Support Migration Architect during detailed-planning and creating Migration runbook procedures.

• Validate move success, monitoring tools integration, CI/CD integration, and hand-over after migration execution

• Validate target infrastructure readiness for migration

• Drive the implementation of special migration methods like cluster migration, storage, or data migration, application migration, and more.

• Manage the technical contract terms and conditions

• Engage and lead vendor interlock for issues and technical remediation

• Provide technical support and 1st level escalation to the specialists for any technical issues during migration

• Identify automation opportunities to reduce migration effort

• Be a recognized as a technical though leader inside and outside of IBM

Outcomes:

• Provided professional services (Design, Deployment, Troubleshooting, Assessment)

• Implementation of clients’ technical strategy

• Designed and implemented a compliant design and infrastructures solution meeting delivery criteria

• Increasing the quality, quantity and frequency of client conversations and engagements for project and implementation services opportunities

• Increase the awareness, applicability and value of consulting services with our clients, sales force and delivery organization

• Achieve a “trusted advisor” persona as viewed by our clients, seller and delivery organization

• Instill a sense of urgency and drive to close consulting practice deals

• Maximize the project and architecture practice abilities and capabilities to increase project and solution success

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Technology Experience:

• Prior experience of at least 2-3 years as Site Reliability Engineer.

• 4 to 6 years’ experience of working on software engineering and architecture including application transformation to Cloud-Ready or Cloud-Native.

• Experience with application assessment, discovery and move to cloud strategy definition.

• Experience (Hands-on) with at least one major cloud provider and/or one platform such as OpenShift or Kubernetes.

• Exposure to tools like Carbonite/Double-Take, Zerto, AppZero and other Native tools from Cloud Service Providers.

• Understanding of modern application migration and modernization approaches: re-host, re-platform, rearchitecture, etc.…

• Good understanding of infrastructure such as network, storage (SAN/DAS/NAS, Object Storage, Cloud Storage, etc.)

• Containerization/Virtualization migration practice (e.g., VMware, Red Hat Virtualization, OpenShift, Kubernetes)

Project Experience:

• Leading teams towards an outcome and break down impediments

• Applied Implementation “Hands on” using Methods and/or best practices to deliver Cloud, On-Premises or Hybrid Solution

• Applied Mature Architecture design framework, principles and methodologies (high-level technical design, low-level technical design, and technical solution design integration)

• Applied Agile principles

• Applied Project Management practices

• Ability to Interpret requirements and create solutions

• Ability to Facilitate workshops

• Managing technical project workstreams to completion

• Ability to evaluate risk and merit to make recommendations

• Applied Client Facing Ability to understand and provide guidance and recommendations on solutions to address clients’ needs, challenges and transformations

• Evaluate risk and merit to make recommendations on available and speculative information

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Experience in migrating and modernization of legacy systems and applications.

• Scripting languages: Python, Bash, PowerShell.

• Involved in Application/Data center migration programs

• Database Engines (Oracle, MS SQL Server, Maria, MySQL, etc.)

• Possess and effectively apply technical and analytical expertise while balancing competing requirements

• Intellectually curious and dedicated to life-long learning

• Motivated to mentor teammates and peers and be mentored by Senior roles.

• Collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking

• Nice to have one cloud certification: AWS, MS Azure or Google Cloud Platform

• Using IBM Garage methodology and other Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, …)

• Automation and configuration management tools: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack

• Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, AKS, EKS, GKS

• Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Graphana

• Event Management tools such as: ElasticSearch

• Ability to articulate key technologies’ impact on cost, capacity, transformation, risk, business enablement and transformation objectives

• Applied Azure and/or AWS infrastructure engineering and designing skills

• Applied Azure and/or AWS migration solutions

Required Education Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Education Master’s Degree

Country/Region India

State / Province MULTIPLE

City / Township / Village MULTIPLE CITIES

Being You @ Kyndryl

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.

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Primary job category Site Reliability Engineer

Role ( Job Role ) Site Reliability Engineering Professional

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