Senior Platform Engineer – VP

Overview

In this role you will act as a DevSecOps point of contact within the Threat Hunt platform team, safeguarding Morgan Stanley’s assets through detection and resilience work. You will support the Cyber Data Platform, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help scale automated security tooling and monitoring. The position emphasizes hands-on platform engineering, service integration, and strategic improvements to the threat hunt stack. You will drive reliable, secure infrastructure and play a key role in reducing risk across the organization. This is a VP-level role that blends technical leadership with hands-on execution.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working arrangements
• attractive and comprehensive employee benefits
• opportunities for cross-business mobility

Responsibilities

• Serve as the DevSecOps point of contact for internal and external clients
• Monitor alerts and perform on-call troubleshooting using runbooks and escalation paths
• Onboard internal and external users to the Cyber Data Platform
• Collaborate with SMEs to integrate applications into MFA and troubleshoot core services
• Work with other Morgan Stanley teams via ServiceNow to install hardware, request maintenance, and resolve network connectivity issues
• Advise on and implement strategic solutions within the threat hunt technology stack
• Troubleshoot hardware-level, network, switch, and firewall issues

Key requirements

• Six+ years of platform engineering experience
• Bachelor in STEM
• Strong quantitative and problem-solving skills
• Software development with Python, Kubernetes (K8s), Elasticsearch (Elastic), NiFi, and Kibana
• Automation of repetitive tasks using Python, Bash, and automation tools
• Solid understanding of DevOps and automated CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to design and implement monitoring and alerting systems
• Proficiency with Git, version control, and code reviews
• Deep knowledge of Linux (Red Hat/CentOS preferred) and enterprise networking
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools
• Experience with Ansible, IaC, and OS/configuration tooling
• Experience patching and updating infrastructure across BIOS, firmware, drivers, kernels, OS, apps, and databases
• Understanding of cyber analytic techniques is desirable
• Strong communication in a team-oriented, Agile environment

• Strong communicator
• Team-oriented
• Fast-paced adaptability
• Python
• Kubernetes (K8s)
• Elasticsearch (Elastic)

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