Network Specialist

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
Ready to embark on a new adventure? At Kyndryl Italia Innovation Services, you'll join a high‐performing infrastructure and cloud platform team, contributing to the design, implementation, and evolution of networking technologies based on several vendors.

The role targets a professional with a solid and progressive career path in networking area, who can operate with increasing autonomy.

As Network Specialist, you'll be working in a complex, multi‐vendor environment, and will use your analytical skills to identify and resolve network issues, make configuration changes, and implement security policies. This role requires someone who can think on their feet, test and apply corrective actions (including emergency changes), and participate in change reviews as needed. And with the ever‐changing nature of technology, you'll be constantly learning and growing in your role.

You will work alongside a talented team of experts to plan and execute routine network changes, troubleshoot and solve network issues and outages, and maintain excellent communication with our end customers, project managers and service engineers. You'll be responsible for maintaining network components, monitoring network performance, and maintaining network security. You will also be providing user support for network‐related issues, ensuring that our customers receive the highest level of support possible.

You will act as a key interface across Delivery, Engineering and Consulting teams, ensuring platform stability while enabling innovation and business growth.

Key Responsibilities
Design, deploy, and manage networking platforms in hybrid and multi‐cloud environments
Ensure high availability, scalability, and security compliance
Support networking evolution initiatives
Troubleshoot complex incidents and act as escalation point
Collaborate with Architects and Consult Partner
Drive continuous optimization
Support governance and service improvement

Who You Are
Required Profile
3-5 years of experience in network/network security & enterprise environments
Proven network specialist experience in managing production environments
Experience in complex enterprise environments
Ability to work with autonomy and ownership
Hands‐on experience with automation tools like Ansible and Terraform
Collaborative mindset and the ability to translate technical concepts for non‐technical stakeholders

Here below some examples of requested capabilities:
definition and implementation of configurations on networking devices;
review of device logs and configurations, in order to prevent potential malfunctions;
support for activities related to updating the software components of the devices;
analysis of vulnerabilities affecting the software installed on the devices, in order to identify appropriate mitigation actions;
execution of fine‐tuning activities to ensure optimal performance of the network infrastructure;
analysis of malfunctions and identification of corrective actions;
analysis of potential interventions for the evolution of the infrastructure;
support in updating documentation (e.g. network infrastructure "layout");
analysis of new features of the base software, definition of production usage modalities, and verification of their impact on existing services and infrastructures;
installation of new software updates and functional testing;
preparation of manuals, contribution to LLD documentation;
development and/or update of control and operational procedures;
analysis of performance data, growth trends, and support for planning network infrastructure capacity upgrades;
development of procedures and preparation of supporting documentation for Disaster Recovery scenarios.

Technical Skills
Network (Cisco, Juniper, HPE)
DDI (Infoblox)
Firewalls (Checkpoint, Cisco, PaloAlto)
Load Balancers (F5)
Familiarity with Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid cloud architectures
Scripting (Bash, Python)
Monitoring and troubleshooting tools (Splunk, CheckMK, Gigamon, Ixia, others)

Certifications
Cisco CCNP – strongly preferred
Juniper/HPe/PaloAlto/F5
Cloud networking certifications (any hyperscaler)

Being You
The "Kyn" in Kyndryl means kinship, which represents the strong bonds we have with each other, our cus