Mainframe SME zLinux Middleware Administrator

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.

The Role

Infrastructure Architects are the key link between Kyndryl and our clients. You’re in a technical leadership role, uniting and guiding stakeholders from clients, governance, and project executives to delivery and sometimes even the vendors who work with the client. You’ll be there from the start of a project — understanding what’s needed and figuring out the best technical solution. And you’ll be there at the finish, delivering the right product on time and within budget.
As an Infrastructure Architect, you’ll draw upon the full breadth of your talent and experience. This is a technical leadership role, so we want you to bring your vision, knowledge, and leadership to each project. To the client, you’re the subject matter expert – consulting early, gathering inputs, understanding what they need from our solution. You define what Kyndryl can do to meet this solution. You design the best solution for the job. And finally, you’re the tech leader for implementation.
At Kyndryl we support all major cloud platforms, so you’ll get the chance to use everything you know – and then some. You’ll also become expert at knowing when and how to call on other SMEs outside your wheelhouse. Thinking your way around pre-existing limitations will grow your creativity and flexibility. You’ll learn a lot here, and if you want to work toward certifications there are plenty of opportunities. The rewards for all this are many. You’ll get to influence, create, and deliver something from start to finish. You will have the power to delight our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage persistent storage, networking, and OpenShift Service Mesh.

• Automate deployments using Helm charts, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Monitor and optimize OpenShift cluster performance, scaling, and resource allocation.

• Enforce best practices for WebSphere and OpenShift security hardening.

• Perform vulnerability assessments, patch management, and compliance audits for middleware technologies

• Integrate middleware logging and monitoring with Splunk, ELK, and Grafana dashboards.

• Diagnose and resolve middleware performance issues, application failures, and system crashes.

• Troubleshoot OpenShift cluster issues, pod failures, and networking problems.

• Analyze logs from WebSphere, IHS, and MQ to identify root causes and implement fixes.

Your future at Kyndryl
This role opens the door to many career paths, both vertical and horizontal, and there may be opportunity to travel. It’s a great chance for database administrators or other techs to break into the cloud. It’s also a solid path to become enterprise or chief architect or a distinguished engineer! Whatever you see for yourself, you’ll find the opportunity here.

Who You Are

Who You Are

You’re good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important – you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused – someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you’re open and borderless – naturally inclusive in how you work with others.
Required Technical and Professional Experience

• 8+ Years Experience zLinux Middleware Administrator.

• Install, configure, and manage OpenShift, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), IBM HTTP Server (IHS), and IBM MQ on IBM Z/Linux.

• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and OpenShift operators.

• Configure and maintain high availability (HA), clustering, and load balancing for all middleware components.

• Tune JVM settings, heap size, garbage collection, and thread pools for WebSphere applications.

• Optimize IBM MQ message flow, queue depth, and performance.

• Configure caching, compression, and load balancing in IHS for improved web performance.

• Use Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, or IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) for real-time system and application monitoring.

• Implement SSL/TLS encryption, LDAP authentication, OAuth, and RBAC policies across middleware components.

• Secure IBM MQ with SSL encryption, authentication, and message signing.

• Set up WebSphere Network Deployment (ND) clusters for high availability.

• Configure multi-instance queue managers and failover strategies for IBM MQ.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Implement OpenShift scaling policies for auto-scaling and redundancy.

• Ensure backup and recovery strategies using IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM).

• Develop Ansible playbooks, Python scripts, and shell scripts to automate administration tasks.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for WebSphere, OpenShift, and IBM MQ.

• Provide 24/7 on-call support for production environments (if required).

• Work closely with application developers, DevOps teams, network engineers, and security teams.

Being You

Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it’s how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we’re not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you – and everyone next to you – the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That’s the Kyndryl Way.

Being You

Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it’s how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we’re not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you – and everyone next to you – the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That’s the Kyndryl Way.

What You Can Expect

With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter – wherever you are in your life journey. Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations.  At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.

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