Kyndryl

Platform Security Architect

Kyndryl
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1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Advise clients on secure private cloud and platform engineering architecture.
  • Define target-state architectures, security standards, governance models, policy-as-code, and non-bypassable security guardrails.
  • Design secure Internal Developer Platforms and repeatable golden paths across applications, Kubernetes, and infrastructure.
  • Drive DevSecOps and runtime security transformation across CI/CD pipelines, identity and access architectures, secrets management, and software and AI/ML supply chains.
  • Address AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery, exploit chaining, and emerging AI-driven threat models.
  • Lead pre- and post-sale client engagements, including workshops, pilots, solution shaping, technical delivery, and thought leadership.
  • Support private cloud modernization programs involving sovereignty and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in platform architecture, platform engineering, or security engineering with a strong advisory focus.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and guiding platform transformations rather than only implementing them.
  • Deep expertise in DevSecOps, secure software delivery, and CI/CD pipeline security integration.
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes security and platform design principles.
  • Experience defining policy-as-code, governance models, and security frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience with identity, access control, and secrets management.
  • Experience addressing AI-accelerated attack patterns or advising on AI-driven threat models and defenses.
  • Preferred experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, vDefend, or other private cloud platforms.
  • Preferred exposure to AI-enabled security tooling, modern threat response, Internal Developer Platforms such as Backstage, behavior-based or runtime detection, pre-sales or client advisory engagements, and sovereignty or regulatory requirements.

Benefits

  • Hybrid-friendly work culture with possible travel.
  • Be Well programs supporting financial, mental, physical, and social health.
  • Career development tools, personalized development goals, continuous feedback, coaching, and hands-on learning.
  • Access to certification opportunities with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.
  • Opportunities for career growth toward enterprise architect, chief architect, or distinguished engineer paths.

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About Kyndryl

10,000+ employees

Kyndryl is a public IT services company that designs, runs, and modernizes mission-critical infrastructure for large enterprises and governments. Spun off from IBM in 2021, it is headquartered in New York City and trades on the NYSE (ticker: KD). The company provides managed infrastructure, cloud migration and operations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, plus mainframe, network, security, data, and digital workplace services.

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