Senior Distributed Databases 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

Within Kyndryl's Distributed Database Administration team, you will play a critical role in the design, operation, and continuous improvement of our PostgreSQL environments. You will manage the full lifecycle of enterprise-grade PostgreSQL and MySQL databases — from installation and configuration to optimization, security, and automation — ensuring the stability and performance of systems that support major customer operations.

You will be responsible for implementing and maintaining database architectures, defining standards, and producing the technical documentation required to support long-term scalability. Your work will include configuring high-availability solutions, managing user access, enforcing security controls, and applying patches and upgrades with minimal service disruption.

A key part of your role will be disaster recovery and business continuity. You will design and execute robust backup and recovery strategies, validate recovery procedures, and ensure data protection across all environments. Your analytical skills will be essential as you troubleshoot complex incidents, support application teams, and optimize workloads for performance and efficiency.

You will contribute to improving operational efficiency by developing and enhancing monitoring, automation, and orchestration capabilities. Capacity planning, growth forecasting, and proactive performance management will help ensure that our database platforms evolve in line with business needs.

As a strategic partner, you will collaborate closely with engineering, application, and infrastructure teams to plan database initiatives — including migrations, version upgrades, and architectural improvements — ensuring alignment with customer and organizational objectives. Your recommendations and technical leadership will directly influence the reliability, scalability, and security of the services we deliver.
 

Every role at Kyndryl provides a clear pathway for career advancement — from Senior Administrator to Architect. You'll have access to industry-leading training programs, hands-on labs, and certification opportunities across multiple platforms and cloud providers. Working with customers in a wide range of sectors, you will have the freedom to broaden your expertise or specialize deeply in the areas that matter most to you.

Who You Are

You excel as a database specialist with hands-on experience in PostgreSQL administration. You bring a proactive mindset, strong attention to detail, and a commitment to continuous learning. You collaborate naturally with others and focus on delivering high-quality service to customers.

• Strong experience administering PostgreSQL databases (installation, configuration, tuning, replication, backup/recovery, patching).

• Solid knowledge of MySQL administration.

• Experience with Linux environments (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu) and scripting (Bash, Python).

• Familiarity with high-availability architectures (streaming replication, Patroni, PgBouncer, clustering).

• Experience troubleshooting performance issues and optimizing SQL workloads.

• Understanding of security best practices, roles/privileges, encryption, and auditing.

• Experience with cloud database services (AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, OCI PostgreSQL/MySQL).

• Experience with automation and IaC (Ansible, Terraform).

• Experience in monitoring platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, pgBadger, ELK).

• Experience with migrations between on-prem and cloud environments.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices applied to database operations.

• Understanding of vulnerability and compliance management in database infrastructures.

As a key member of the team, you will implement security and operational policies to protect data assets, conduct capacity planning, and participate in architecture decisions. You will play an active role in continuous service improvement and contribute to major database initiatives, ensuring system performance, reliability, and scalability.

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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