Application Support

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 Software Production Management & Reliability Engineering position at Director level which is part of the job family responsible for overseeing the production environment, ensuring the operational reliability of deployed software, and implementing strategies to optimize performance and minimize downtime.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley has been 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.

Department Profile

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MSWM) Technology is the global technology department responsible for the design, development, delivery and support of the technical solutions behind the products and services used by the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (MSWM) business. The department is comprised of 10 organizations: Sales, Banking & Corporate-Client Technology, Investment Products & Markets Technology, Client Reporting, Core Processing, Private and International Wealth Management Technology, Technology Integration Office, Enterprise Infrastructure & Production Management, Capital Markets Application & Data Services, Deployment Planning & Release Management, and the Chief Operating Office.

The Reliability Operations (RO) within WMT is responsible for providing swift, courteous, and knowledgeable customer service to end users of the production systems. This position is focused on user and systems support, answering hotline calls, monitoring systems alerts, and taking corrective action. Technical understanding is important as well as the ability to speak to users and understand their problems. In addition to direct user support tasks, the team performs infrastructure related tasks including process configuration, hardware capacity planning, event management, release work, and support tool development to ensure any repetitive tasks are packaged to remove any element of risk.

Position Overview

The Wealth Management Production Management Site Reliability Engineer position is a highly visible/critical role, which will be a team member of technical SME’S managing the stability and optimization of the Wealth Management systems. Scope includes but not limited to, the day-to-day support of the organization’s technology related outages, collaboration on technology projects

focused on stability, optimization, business impact analysis, and associated risk-related methodologies. This role will be responsible for overall stability of the Wealth Management Investment Management application platforms, participation on key optimization initiatives, and collaboration with multiple technical teams within Morgan Stanley. Additionally, partners with WM business units, various levels of management and staff to collect, analyze and make recommendations on optimizing the platform.

As a team member with expertise in deep analytical triage, you will provide subject matter expertise in debugging, issue analysis and troubleshooting, working with business and technical colleagues to provide reviews and recommendations to avoid any future application issues. Produce guidance documentation, standards and procedures, products assessments, and training material including working with the various application and infrastructure support teams ensuring that they are documenting every single troubleshooting step in Morgan Stanley knowledge base system to resolve issues in a faster time frame. You will serve as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource; provide technical knowledge in outage management and proactive solutions to improve the user experience.

This position will mainly perform DevOps/ SRE role in Application support, Platform Stability and Resiliency.

Role & Responsibilities:

Proactively detecting, troubleshooting, and resolving all issues affecting production applications. This involves coordination with and escalation to development and external teams where necessary. This team owns all issues escalated to us until it is resolved or a workaround is provided for end users to continue functioning.

Responsible for maintaining clear, concise, and timely communications with affected parties during the investigation and resolution of any individual or system-wide outage

Responsible for the stability of the Production environment

Develop and continually revise in partnership with other teams where necessary) suitable policies and procedures to ensure appropriate application development standards are available to guide development for systems deployed to Production.

As the gatekeepers of the Production environment, responsible for ensuring the Change Implementation Management guidelines/policies are adhered to for all systems deployed to Production.

Responsible for servicing all requests for data or other activities that require access to Production systems

Work with development teams at the appropriate stages in application development to ensure any new systems or projects meet the Production standard

Responsible for maintaining and growing a body of knowledge that is accessible to all team members. Ensure information regarding any support related activities or issues are available and easily accessible. The goal is to improve self-reliance and reduce dependency on the availability of development or external team resources for the initial troubleshooting and resolution of problems.

Primary skills

Minimum 5–7 years of experience developing and/or supporting enterprise applications

3–5 years of experience leading a small-to-medium team with similar skill sets

Willingness to embrace Agile practices and DevOps/SRE concepts

Working knowledge of DevOps and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Kibana)

Strong analytical skills, including problem determination and recovery/resolution processes

Ability to interface with and build strong working relationships across technology teams, business analysts, and vendors

Understanding of database engineering and the ability to develop high-quality database solutions

Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, S3, Fargate, Aurora, and Lambda

Hands-on scripting experience with Python and working knowledge of Java

Administrative competence in at least one major programming language or platform (e.g., Perl, PowerShell, Unix scripting, Java, C#, .NET)

Exposure to application technologies such as JavaScript, React, GraphQL, Python, Django, Celery, PostgreSQL, Golang, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ and Kafka.

Experience with web analytics tools (preferably Adobe Experience Cloud) is a plus

Fast learner who thrives in a fast-paced environment

Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and high-pressure outage situations through resolution

Driven to learn new technologies and techniques and to be an integral member of the team

Hands-on experience administering large-scale, high-availability systems and using tools to monitor performance and availability

Experience in creating technical architecture documentation

Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical discussions across management layers

BS/MS degree (or equivalent), preferably in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering)

Experience with on-call support and the ability to respond to emergencies on a 24/7 basis

Experience in the financial services industry is a plus

Assist with investigating and troubleshooting production issues, and actively mentor/coach/train team members

Secondary Skills

5–10 years of experience supporting or developing transaction-based systems

Hands-on technical professional who understands both code and infrastructure

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