Platform Architect - Vice President

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. We advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for governments, institutions, and individuals. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. We provide you a superior foundation for building a professional career where you can learn, achieve, and grow.

Technology at Morgan Stanley

Technology is the key differentiator that ensures that we manage our global businesses and serve clients on a market-leading platform that is resilient, safe, efficient, smart, fast, and flexible. The Technology division partners with our business units and leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global and dynamic financial markets.

Our sizeable investment in technology results in leading-edge tools, software, and systems. Our insights, applications, and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses and to our own.

Position Description:

The Rapid Infrastructure Orchestration (RIO) engineering team is part of the Enterprise Technology and Services Organization in Morgan Stanley. The team creates and maintains platform solutions to allow the firm to manage and configure its infrastructure as code utilizing Ansible and Terraform.

The Platform Architect will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining enterprise-grade Terraform and Ansible platform spanning private, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. This role involves close collaboration with multi-cloud platform owners to ensure integration and compliance with central SDLC standards. Emphasizing Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code using modular approach, the engineer will support unified interfaces and processes across all environments, aligning with organizational best practices while adapting to the requirements of each platform.

The ideal candidate should combine strong architectural design skills and practical programming experience with operational discipline to deliver stable, automated platform solutions suitable for enterprise use.

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of IT experience with a focus on cloud infrastructure engineering and automation
• Expertise in designing and integrating with enterprise cloud environments, including hands-on experience with Kubernetes, networking, storage, and security services on multiple platforms.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code development
• Proven experience architecting and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure using GitHub Actions, Jekins, Azure DevOps, or similar CI/CD tools.
• Advanced development skills in Python for automation, integration, and troubleshooting
• Strong background working with modern authentication and authorizations frameworks (e.g. OAuth, ODIC, MTLS)
• Strong working experience on relational databases and webservers
• Strong communication, problem solving and collaboration abilities

Desired Skills:

• Experience in leading cloud migration projects
• Experience in infrastructure deployment and management across Private, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud platforms
• Understanding of the specific security requirements and governance standards on Cloud platforms
• Experience in developing and enforcing security policies, role-based access control (RBAC), and governance frameworks via federated identities
• Experience on automation with Ansible playbooks highly desired
• Experience on policy enforcement with Terraform, especially Terraform Enterprise highly desired

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.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $125,000 and $175,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

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.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.