The Performance Engineering Cloud Lead position at Morgan Stanley is a Director-level role focused on establishing and driving the Performance Engineering strategy for migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role requires expertise in cloud-native technologies and aims to ensure that cloud-hosted applications meet performance, scalability, resiliency, and capacity objectives. The individual will work closely with various teams to evaluate cloud architectures and lead performance assessments. The position is critical for bridging existing capabilities with emerging cloud architectures as the firm undergoes its cloud transformation.

• 10+ years of experience in Performance Engineering, with strong expertise supporting distributed systems and large-scale customer-facing applications.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes/GKE, cloud networking, cloud databases, containers, and observability platforms.
• Demonstrated experience defining performance strategies for cloud migration or large-scale technology modernization initiatives.
• Deep understanding of scalability and resiliency patterns, including autoscaling, caching, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures, multi-region deployments, and cell-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of performance modeling, benchmarking, capacity planning, bottleneck analysis, and non-functional testing.
• Hands-on experience with performance and observability technologies such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience defining and executing load, stress, endurance, scalability, failover, and resiliency testing.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across multiple layers of the technology stack.
• Ability to influence senior Engineering and Architecture stakeholders through data-driven technical recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical findings into clear architectural recommendations.

• Define and drive the Performance Engineering strategy for GCP transformation, embedding performance, scalability, resiliency, and capacity considerations into architecture decisions from inception.
• Partner with Architecture, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to evaluate cloud-native designs and deployment patterns.
• Lead performance assessments, proof-of-concepts, benchmarks, and comparative architecture studies, providing data-driven recommendations.
• Establish cloud performance engineering standards, methodologies, guardrails, and non-functional requirements.
• Design performance validation frameworks covering load, stress, endurance, scalability, failover, chaos, and resiliency testing.
• Establish performance baselines and capacity models to support application growth and efficient operation across multi-region and multi-cell cloud architectures.
• Partner with development teams to identify and remediate performance bottlenecks across various technology layers.
• Evaluate and introduce modern performance testing, monitoring, observability, and automation capabilities.
• Define performance certification criteria and governance to validate cloud workloads against established service-level objectives.
• Leverage cloud-native telemetry and observability data to develop actionable performance insights and capacity recommendations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the Performance Engineering organization.
• Communicate performance risks, architectural tradeoffs, certification results, and readiness assessments to senior technology stakeholders.

• 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.