We're seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer covering designing, building and maintaining robust, resilient and scalable, infrastructure automation systems.
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 a Lead Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering position at Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for managing and optimizing technical infrastructure and ensuring the seamless operation of IT systems to support business needs effectively.
Since 1935, Morgan Stanley has been a global leader in financial services, continually evolving and innovating to better serve clients and communities across more than 40 countries.
What you'll do in the role:
- Design, implement and support new infrastructure solutions to enable our algorithmic trading business to operate in an efficient, effective and compliant manner.
- Collaborate closely with business-facing development groups, system administrators and enterprise infrastructure engineers to implement and maintain appropriate solutions to reduce costs and manage technology risk for our business.
- Act as a subject matter expert for our Linux-based electronic trading infrastructure platform.
- Mentor, coach and lead less experienced engineers.
- Provide technical leadership and vision for a small business-aligned team of engineers and SREs.
- Drive the continuous improvement of our infrastructure and working practices through regular reviews, blameless port-mortems and other SRE techniques.
What you'll bring to the role:- Advanced knowledge of the Python programming language and standard software engineering concepts such as common data structures, regular expressions, object-oriented programming, and advanced algorithms.
- Strong understanding of core Unix components - networking stack, daemon configuration, OS customisation.
- Experience with architecting large scale, robust, resilient and scalable systems. Domain expertise in infrastructure automation and integration.
- The ability to describe algorithmic and architectural trade-offs in an algebraic or quantitative fashion.
- Comfortable developing in a Linux and CLI-based environment.
- Knowledge of standard Linux command line debugging tools such as tcpdump and strace.
- Familiarity with modern development tools and practices including agentic-workflows, git, jenkins, test-driven development, and continuous integration.
- Can take full-lifecycle ownership of components within a project, from initial architecture design to ongoing support.
- A proven track record of technical leadership, able to work independently on both technical problems as well as customer interactions. The successful candidate will also be expected to provide technical mentorship and leadership to less experienced engineers.
- Familiarity with the Go programming language would also be useful.
#LI-FT1 #BPTECH #LI-hybrid #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 opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
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