IT Infrastructure Automation Senior SME

• A gross monthly salary of at least €5,400 to €6,500. The salary offer may exceed this range, depending on the skills and capabilities you bring to the team.

• Education programs and certifications to broaden and deepen your knowledge;

• You work together with experienced colleagues;

• Various career growth opportunities, depending on your experience and interest;

• The Kyndryl Social Club regularly organizes drinks and other fun activities;

• Kyndryl Cares: you can do volunteer work 1 day per year at no cost to you;

• The space to organize your working hours flexibly and work from home;

• Part-time work is possible in consultation;

• The tools to perform your work: a mobile phone that you can also use privately and the choice between a MacBook or Lenovo laptop;

• A monthly internet allowance;

• A contribution to your pension: if you work at Kyndryl, you are automatically affiliated with the BeFrank pension fund;

• Generous arrangements for, for example, partner leave.

As an IT Infrastructure Automation Senior SME, you are responsible for executing project work for our client. You dive into complex architecture and security issues on a daily basis. You translate the chosen strategy into concrete solution building blocks based on the latest developments within your field of expertise, and you work on both the configuration and implementation sides. You have an outside-in view, which means you can easily find your own way within Kyndryl, check references, and apply best practices.

As an IT Infrastructure Automation Senior SME, you will proactively tackle your duties based on your knowledge and personal attitude. This ranges from translating the design into a realization and setting up the corresponding rollout instructions. Additionally, you are the point of contact for third-line questions: when it comes to knowledge, you are the first point of contact. You devise tactical solutions for the client and design them thoroughly. Think of issues regarding connections, migrations, security, and determining required performance. In short, a varied job with a lot of independence!

As an IT Infrastructure Automation Senior SME, you must also assist other teams with automation. Therefore, good skills in transferring knowledge and training others are important. Furthermore, documentation and the ability to articulate concepts well are important. For example, the input that must be provided for a test strategy.

Responsibilities include:

• Automating manual tasks;

• Technical setup and management of (cloud) environments;

• Performing upgrades (new versions of components) and updates (patches);

• Logging, monitoring, and optimization of the environments;

• Setting up and using CI/CD;

• Release Management;

• Capacity Management;

• Setting up management processes.

Your home base is Soesterberg. We offer flexible working, where we expect you to be in the office an average of about 2 days per week to collaborate with the team.

Important to know: to be allowed to work for Defense, you must possess Dutch nationality and a Dutch passport. You must also be able to speak and write Dutch.

The Kyndryl Netherlands headquarters is located in the sustainable Pharos building in Hoofddorp. Our Kyndryl Social Club regularly organizes informal and inspiring activities. Partial working from home is among the possibilities.

Every role at Kyndryl offers a chance to grow your career, from Junior Administrator to Architect. We have training and continuing education programs that you won't find anywhere else, including practical experience, learning opportunities, and the possibility to get certified on all four major platforms. One of the advantages of Kyndryl is that we work with customers in various industries, from banking to retail and government. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can seize your opportunity at Kyndryl.

Who You Are

You are familiar with several of the products, technologies, and knowledge areas mentioned below, and know how to apply them regularly in your work:

• Minimum 8 years of experience with technical management of private cloud environments

• Automation using Red Hat Ansible (certified or demonstrated work experience);

• Automated provisioning of IaaS and PaaS services;

• Databases in an enterprise environment;

• Secure by Design;

• Minimum Red Hat RHCSA certification (or demonstrated work experience).

• Familiar with hosting (IaaS and PaaS), high availability, high performance, scalability, and security best practices;

• Management processes;

• Knowledge of Linux (RHEL 8 and/or 9);

• Scripting, specifically Ansible, Infrastructure/Configuration as Code (specifically Ansible) - Scripting (specifically Python or PowerShell);

• Security techniques, encryption;

• Zoning & Segmentation concepts of applications & data;

• Version control / source code & configuration files => GitLab & Git client;

• Dashboarding & virtualization;

• Supporting tooling for monitoring/surveillance / logging, antivirus, etc;.

• Compute, network, storage setup concepts;

• Container technologies (Kubernetes);

• Experience with CI/CD tools;

• Experience with Linux and Red Hat;

• Experience with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (for example Nutanix).