Senior Cloud Architect

About the role

Kyndryl is looking for a Senior Cloud Architect to connect customers' business needs with their IT strategy, using architectural models and views to design agile, sustainable and flexible solutions. The role involves working closely with customers to map IT capabilities to business needs and to explain solutions, strategies and direction across the customer's business, infrastructure and industry.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud solutions for production workloads with high reliability, scalability and security.
• Support cloud assessments, current-state analysis, application and 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 (Kubernetes, OpenShift) and develop automation solutions with IaC.
• Support DevSecOps, 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.

Required profile

• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud solutions.
• Experience coaching or leading technical teams or workstreams in transformation, migration, modernization or infrastructure projects.
• Ability to work in customer-facing delivery contexts and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent experience.
• Fluent Italian and good English.

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of core cloud services.
• Preferred: certifications on Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, and experience with pre-sales, solutioning or technical proposals.
• Preferred: Agile delivery, technical governance, architecture review processes, hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Preferred: virtualization (VMware), containers (Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift), automation and DevOps.

What we offer

• Career growth from Junior to Principal Architect, with learning opportunities and certification support.
• Permanent employment contract possible; salary range in Italy of EUR 60,060 to EUR 107,900 depending on factors such as experience and location.
• Hybrid-friendly culture and well-being programmes.