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 We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Lead Platform Engineer to lead the design, implementation, modernization, and support of enterprise platform services across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in infrastructure engineering, platform operations, automation, middleware, scheduling, database management, file transfer solutions, and production support within large-scale enterprise environments.
The role requires leadership in driving platform stability, automation, observability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence while partnering with business, application, and infrastructure teams. Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering & Operations Lead the design, deployment, and management of enterprise platform infrastructure across UNIX, Linux, and Windows environments. Drive platform modernization initiatives including virtualization, automation, cloud integration, and infrastructure optimization.
Ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and security of business-critical platforms. Manage platform capacity planning, performance tuning, system upgrades, and lifecycle management. Define platform standards, operational procedures, and support models. Infrastructure & Systems Management Manage enterprise server environments, virtual machines (VMware/Hyper-V), storage systems, NAS platforms, and network integrations.
Administer and support UNIX/Linux and Windows server environments. Lead disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, and recovery initiatives. Collaborate with infrastructure, network, and security teams on platform enhancements and issue resolution. Workload Automation & Scheduling Administer and support Tivoli Work Scheduler (TWS) / workload automation platforms. Design and optimize batch processing, job scheduling, dependency management, and workflow orchestration.
Troubleshoot critical batch failures and ensure SLA compliance. Database & Data Platform Support Support Oracle databases and enterprise SQL environments. Perform performance analysis, query optimization, database monitoring, and troubleshooting. Coordinate with application and data engineering teams during releases and migrations. Middleware & File Transfer Services Manage and support Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions and secure file exchange platforms.
Implement file transfer automation, monitoring, reconciliation, and incident management processes. Ensure compliance with security and data protection requirements. Automation & Scripting Develop and maintain automation solutions using SQL/PLSQL,Python and Shell Scripting. Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, operational tasks, deployments, and reporting. Drive Infrastructure as Code and operational efficiency initiatives.
Security & Compliance Work closely with cybersecurity teams to implement platform security controls. Support firewall configurations, network security policies, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements. Participate in audits, risk assessments, and security reviews. Monitoring & Incident Management Lead major incident management activities for platform-related outages and critical issues.
Implement proactive monitoring and observability practices. Perform root cause analysis and drive preventive measures for recurring incidents. Ensure platform SLAs, KPIs, and operational metrics are achieved. Reporting &