This is a Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering position at Morgan Stanley, focusing on managing and optimizing technical infrastructure to support business needs. The role involves driving execution across the hardware lifecycle for the Enterprise Z platform, which supports critical business applications. The candidate will lead efforts in resiliency, security, automation, and AI adoption while collaborating with various teams and vendors. Regular weekend work and on-call availability are required to support hardware operations.

• Extensive mainframe hardware engineering experience in a large, regulated environment.
• Strong knowledge of IBM Z, DASD, Tape, FICON/SAN, Replication, and HMC/console infrastructure.
• Proven record leading complex installations, HCD, migrations, and decommissions across many teams.
• Experience managing major hardware vendors, SLAs, and escalations.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure security, including encryption, privileged access, and patch management.
• Experience with change management, asset management, and audits.
• Strong communication skills with senior management and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading and developing technical staff.

• Coordinate hardware installations, upgrades, migrations, and decommissions.
• Manage vendor teams and hold them accountable for delivery and SLAs.
• Maintain stability, resiliency, and SLA delivery across various infrastructure components.
• Own hardware lifecycle execution from demand planning to secure disposal.
• Lead hardware evaluations for major technology refreshes.
• Drive cyber recovery and security improvements.
• Keep the environment audit-ready through accurate inventory and change controls.
• Expand automation through API-based management and orchestrated workflows.
• Lead the team's AI adoption for hardware-related tasks.
• Develop the team and ensure technical leadership coverage across the hardware portfolio.

• 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.