We are looking for a strong technologist and a doer who is willing to lead by example by being hands on every day. This role will be supporting Institutional Securities and Wealth Management brokerage Operations platforms which include diverse technologies hosted by on premises and cloud platforms.

Job description:

• The role is expected to perform day to day support for the business alongside reliability engineering tasks. The role has an emphasis on improving the reliability of our systems by working with the Software developers and Infrastructure engineering teams to develop automated reliability solutions.
• Using automation will help evolve our systems that will increase our velocity in managing uptime and mitigate risk.
• We are looking for the ideal candidate to improve our codebase in a growing area of the Firm that provides significant potential for career growth for the right candidate.

Responsibilities: 50:50 split of production support and SRE tasks.

• Day to day support of systems and end users in the Operations department of Morgan Stanley.
• Trouble shooting technical problems across a distributed Unix environment, on Azure cloud platform or in databases.
• Managing critical incidents and ensuring all key management and business stakeholders are kept up to date.
• Implementing a program of work to establish the System Reliability Engineering practice into the Operations Production Management department
• Developing code and automation frameworks that enhances our monitoring and measurement capability and eliminates support toil.

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