Profile Description

We’re seeking someone to join our CDRR Technology team as a Site Reliability Engineer, in Cyber to help drive performance, reliability, enhanced observability and efficiency for the department’s Data Obfuscation system.

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities.

This is Director position that oversees the production environment, ensuring the operational reliability of deployed software, and implements strategies to optimize performance and minimize downtime.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you’ll do in the role:

• A commitment to understanding the range of products in our eco-system with a view to specializing in at least one and optimizing the end-to-end workflow

• Maximizing the availability and performance of supported systems through optimized and automated plant management, enhanced observability, ongoing problem management and architecture reviews with peers

• Identification and prioritization of technical debt that is impacting system reliability, performance or squad efficiency, through the elimination of operational issues, optimization and automation of tasks, development of operational tools and driving client self-service to minimize human dependency for support or maintenance

• Complex troubleshooting in a Linux environment with a focus on collaborating with others to identify the underlying cause of issues and agreeing on lasting improvements that can be made

• Exploring and delivering improved observability including performance metrics, actionable logging, tracing and meaningful alerting that can define and measure the target reliability of a product

• Being sensitive to clients’ needs (ie the Firm’s community of internal developers) to help maximize their productivity, including troubleshooting their issues and developing “self-healing” solutions

• Minimizing the issue escalation rate to ensure the squad has the greatest possible flow of feature delivery

• Being dependable and operationally responsive during agreed hours, including sharing on-call rotation with the rest of the global team (with a time-off in lieu system)

What you’ll bring to the role:

• The successful candidate will have around 6 years of experience.

• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills

• Strong experience of database administration, engineering or troubleshooting (ideally including performance optimization)

• Development skills in any programming language (ideally Python) for task automation

• Excellent oral and written communication

• Ability to establish effective relationships with colleagues and clients to collaborate on successful delivery and/or troubleshooting

• Ability to respond appropriately during occasional technical emergencies, such as outages.

• Experience with data transfer technologies such as ETL (eg Talend, Informatica), Kafka, MQ etc.

• Software engineering or data engineering experience

• Experience of being an operational point of escalation

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.