This is a Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering position at the Director level within Morgan Stanley's Technology division. The role focuses on managing and optimizing technical infrastructure to support business needs effectively, specifically for the ETRADE Cloud program. The architect will design secure, resilient, and scalable platform capabilities primarily using Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Collaboration across various teams is essential to ensure the seamless operation of IT systems and to guide engineering teams through implementation and production readiness.

• Professional experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, solution architecture, or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, including organizations, folders, projects, billing structures, IAM, service accounts, organization policies, shared VPCs, and landing zones.
• Experience with GCP compute, container, storage, networking, security, messaging, database, monitoring, and automation services.
• Working knowledge of Google Kubernetes Engine and Kubernetes.
• Strong infrastructure foundation across compute, storage, networking, DNS, load balancing, proxies, firewalls, certificates, secrets, and key management.

• Own and contribute to end-to-end platform engineering architecture for ETRADE cloud capabilities.
• Define target-state, transitional, and migration architectures for applications moving to secure cloud-native platforms.
• Develop reference architectures, architecture principles, reusable patterns, standards, guardrails, and decision records for platform services.
• Design cloud landing-zone capabilities covering organization and project structures, networking, identity, security controls, logging, monitoring, policy enforcement, and operational governance.
• Create platform architecture patterns for Kubernetes, workload identity, APIs, event-driven services, data services, observability, resiliency, and automation.

• 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.