Role Summary
Kyndryl is hiring an experienced Database Administrator (Infrastructure & Cloud Operations) to join our enterprise infrastructure team on-site in Mumbai or Hyderabad. In this role, you will administer, secure, and scale mission-critical database environments and the supporting virtualization and operating system layers. You will oversee database installations, execute complex on-premise to cloud migrations, enforce rigorous backup and disaster recovery mechanisms, and configure virtualization platforms on VMware ESXi and Windows Server to guarantee high availability and peak performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Database & Infrastructure Administration: Install, configure, optimize, and maintain database management systems running across Windows Server 2016 and virtualized environments.
- Virtualization & Cloud Migrations: Manage compute workloads on VMware ESXi clusters and execute seamless on-premise database migrations to public and private cloud architectures.
- Disaster Recovery & High Availability: Architect and maintain end-to-end backup, restore, and failover procedures to guarantee data integrity and minimize recovery time objectives (RTO).
- Capacity Planning & Optimization: Monitor disk, I/O, and compute utilization to execute proactive capacity planning, performance tuning, and architectural scaling.
- Security, Compliance & Access Governance: Implement least-privilege security controls, participate in vulnerability remediation, and collaborate with teams managing Active Directory and AD FS identity platforms.
Key Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Applications, or a related field.
- Experience: 4 to 8 years of solid hands-on experience in enterprise database management, systems administration, and infrastructure support.
- Core Stack: Hands-on proficiency with relational database systems, Windows Server 2016 management, VMware ESXi administration, and cloud migration frameworks.
- Nice to Have: Experience with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) automation scripts, vulnerability assessment tools, Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Professional Competencies: Disciplined approach to incident and problem management, strong analytical troubleshooting, and clear technical communication in cross-functional support teams.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl is the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, designing, building, managing, and modernizing the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day.