IT Management Consultant

**Why Kyndryl**

Our world has never been more alive with opportunities and, at Kyndryl, we’re ready to seize them. We design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl is at the heart of progress — dedicated to helping companies and people grow strong. Our people are actively discovering, co-creating, and strengthening. We push ourselves and each other to seek better, to go further, and we carry this energy to our customers. At Kyndryl, we want you to keep growing, and we’ll provide plenty of opportunities to make that happen.

**Your Role and Responsibilities**

The incumbent will contribute to the development and delivery of consulting solutions based on first-hand recent experiences. S/he will understand the challenges faced by clients and technology, the alternatives, and the remedy approach to best fit the enterprise automation requirements. In executing a consulting engagement, you will perform automation consulting assessment and build recommendations for implementation:
1.Architectural Solutions and Designs for Automation Strategy and Vision for “IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Automation-as-a-Service” models

2.Organization automation for keeping pace with organization changes

3.Process automation for orchestration and process quality and availability

4.and will be inspired by the opportunity to work in a team to develop new processes and technologies to overcome these challenges.Your Role and Responsibilities

The IT Management Automation Enterprise Architect Consultant
- will independently or as part of a consulting team, perform the consulting solution, create the consulting automation deliverables, and achieve the project outcomes while communicating the project success resulting in high client satisfaction:

- will work as part of a scrum team focused on enterprise automation and cloud foundations; and
- work will be attached to a development team as an SRE or DevOps Consultant

The IT Management Automation Enterprise Architect Consultant will translate client automation requirements into industry leading and high value solutions, and, upon client commitment, to architecturally technically design, build and configure enterprise automation platforms.

Finally, the IT Management Automation Enterprise Architect Consultant will be perceived as the trusted advisor and brand expert for automation services within the Kyndryl Canadian, Americas and global automation consulting practices. This requires your continued skill and expertise proactive growth to keep pace with automation principles, technologies, and evolving best practices.
**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 7+ years of progressive post-graduate IT and business consulting experience,
- Ability to leading teams towards an outcome and break down impediments,
- Applied expertise of consulting methodologies, consulting practice models, and consulting principles,
- Applied knowledge of architectural thinking, architectural methods,
- Applied expertise of architecture framework, design and development of automation platform, solution design document and technical design document,
- Applied expertise in defining and creation of automation strategy & roadmaps,
- Applied mastery of automation and orchestration at large scale across the enterprise,
- Applied expertise on architectural design decision making,
- Applied experience with development, configuration, orchestration, and automation tools such as Ansible, Ansible Tower, Terraforms, ElasticSearch, GitHub, Jenkins, Chef, and Puppet to provide full stack integration,
- Applied experience in engineering advance automation playbooks and scripts using Ansible modules, ansible engine, redhat satellite, dynamic inventories, and best practices in generating log/playbook specialized data via enhanced logic for reporting purposes,
- Ability to articulate key technologies' impact on security, availability, cost, capacity, transformation, risk, business enablement and transformation objectives,
- Ability to evaluate risk/merit to make recommendations on available and speculative information, and
- Certification with Red Hat Ansible, RedHat Satellite, AWS, Azure, or other automation and cloud technologies

**Preferred Technical and Professional Experience**
- Experience and working knowledge of Windows and Linux Platforms including patching strategies,
- Experience and working knowledge of Cisco and Network Platforms including patching strategies,
- Previous experience transforming organizations to CI/CD delivery model,
- Previous experience in using tools such as image repositories (Artifactory, Quay, etc.),
- Ability to develop infrastructure automation in Go or Python as either a Kubernetes operator or on technologies,
- Working knowledge of Containers such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and
- Proficiency automating/leveraging monitoring and event management technologies