Consultant Conversion: Automation Engineer, Systems Engineering

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 & Infrastructure Engineering position at VP 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 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.

This position’s primary responsibility will focus on the E*TRADE’s Linux based infrastructure.

• This will include assisting in the design, implementation, integration, and maintenance of the server environment across internal data centers and public cloud infrastructure.
• This position will be responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining a variety of automated systems, interacting with many tech and non-tech resources as well as vendors and external resources.
• The candidate will be creating and documenting systems/application architectures and is responsible for complex technical projects and interfacing with business and technology teams.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Extensive deployment/migration experience leveraging automation (physical and virtual) maintaining OS patching levels.

• Understand security requirement documents and implement those into automated solutions to keep our environment secure, including being able to report and update the status at scale
• Scripting/automating security baseline remediation tasks
• Work with Project Managers and Business stakeholders to design and develop solutions to address business needs and propose changes to develop effective solutions.
• Examine requirements documents and create technical design documents, and implementation plans for small to complex projects.
• Analyze data critical to capacity forecasting, asset management and procurement.
• Ensure that the technical environment is properly maintained and correctly designed.
• Mentor less experienced team members.
• Collaborate openly and continuously with geographically dispersed team.

Requirements
• Minimum 5 years of Linux or equivalent experience including knowledge of security hardening best practices.
• Minimum 5 years of virtualization engineering experience (VMware).
• Minimum of 3 years working with infrastructure automation and config management tools (i.e.. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef).
• Minimum of 3 years working in a mission critical production Linux environment.

• Minimum of 3 years working in Kubernetes and OpenShift environment

Desirable
• Working knowledge of standard version control systems (i.e.: GitLab, Bitbucket, SVN, etc.).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in both verbal and written English.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting experience.
• DevOps and automation mindset
• AWS service offerings, including VMWare Cloud on AWS (VMC)
• Familiarity with understanding and implementing security controls on Linux servers.

We have a track record of innovation and passion for unlocking new opportunities, we help our clients raise, manage and allocate capital. We do this by offering a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and asset management services.

All that we do at Morgan Stanley is driven by our five core values: do the right thing, put clients first, lead with exceptional ideas, commit to diversity and inclusion, and give back. These aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day, ensuring we do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees around the world. And at the core of our success are the people who drive it - relentless collaborators and creative thinkers who are fueled by diverse thinking and experiences.

Wherever you are in our 1,200 global offices, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest in an environment where you are empowered to achieve your full potential. 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.

At Morgan Stanley Alpharetta, we support the Firm’s global business and functions from Wealth Management and Institutional Securities to Technology and Operations, Finance and Human Resources. With the 2020 acquisition of E-TRADE, Morgan Stanley Alpharetta grew significantly and has grown its role in our Wealth Management business helping deliver a premiere experience for the digitally inclined investor and trader.