Platform Architect - Vice President
Morgan StanleyPlatform Architect - Vice President
Morgan StanleyLocation
Alpharetta, GA
Type
Full-time
Posted
9/19/2026
Compensation
$125,000 - $175,000 per year
Job description
The Platform Architect role within the Rapid Infrastructure Orchestration (RIO) engineering team at Morgan Stanley focuses on designing, building, and maintaining enterprise-grade Terraform and Ansible platforms across multiple cloud environments. This position emphasizes Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code, ensuring compliance with central SDLC standards while collaborating with multi-cloud platform owners. The ideal candidate will leverage strong architectural design skills and programming experience to deliver stable, automated platform solutions suitable for enterprise use. The role is critical for enhancing the firm's infrastructure management capabilities.
Requirements
- 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, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar CI/CD tools
- Advanced development skills in Python for automation, integration, and troubleshooting
- Strong background working with modern authentication and authorization frameworks such as OAuth, ODIC, and MTLS
- Strong working experience on relational databases and web servers
- Strong communication, problem solving, and collaboration abilities
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade Terraform and Ansible platforms across private, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud environments
- Collaborate closely with multi-cloud platform owners to ensure integration and compliance with central SDLC standards
- Support unified interfaces and processes across all environments while aligning with organizational best practices
- Emphasize Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code using a modular approach
- Deliver stable, automated platform solutions suitable for enterprise use
Benefits
- Morgan Stanley offers extensive benefits that support employees’ careers, health, finances, and families, including top-tier medical coverage, mental health support, generous parental leave, fertility and family-building benefits, and robust retirement and stock purchase plans. Employees also gain access to continuous learning and networking opportunities, volunteer and giving programs aligned with the firm’s values, and hundreds of lifestyle perks like discounted products, cultural and entertainment tickets, and commuter savings.
H-1B filing history
Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026
Filing entity: Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc
As of Aug 23, 2026
Initial approvals
104
FY2026
Approval rate
99.1%
FY2026
LCA certified
765
FY2026
Entry-level share
0.0%
FY2026
Initial approvals YoY
-23%
Trend
LCA certified YoY
+6%
Trend
Initial approvals by fiscal year
Approval rate by fiscal year
Continuing vs initial approvals
LCA certified positions by quarter
LCA certified positions by fiscal year
Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.
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