Morgan Stanley

enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Lead Software Engineering position at the Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on.

The SWAT team is responsible for ensuring WM application platform stability. This team is responsible for L3/L4 incident support to identify root cause and rapid service restoration. The team members are engaged in identifying root causes for incidents and also proactive identification of patterns and trends that can lead to stability issues on the WM Application platform.

This team constitutes a set of skilled engineers with multiple skillsets that span across multiple platforms (Mainframe, Distributed Server Platform and Desktop Platform) and technologies. The individuals must have in-depth technical knowledge and expertise across multiple platforms and technologies spanning across Mainframe and Distributed systems, Operating Systems, Databases, Application Languages, Troubleshooting skills, Performance Data and Network Capture analysis skills to effectively identify rapid resolution solutions. This involves parsing logs, analyzing performance data, analyzing network data, trends and patterns to identify root cause analysis that drives platform resiliency, scalability and stability.

What you’ll bring to the role

• Experience in using tools to collect logs, thread, memory, and heap dumps, provide root cause analysis based on collected data
• Log analysis with tools like log parser, Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, etc. for performance turning, troubleshooting and trending, capacity analysis
• In-depth knowledge in Linux OS in Enterprise environment, experience administering RHEL or similar *nix OS with focus on Apache and Tomcat configuration
• Ability to understand application code, experience in common scripting languages as well as generic programming languages
• Experience with Java development including Java EE, Spring, Struts as well as deploying and maintaining applications on Apache, Tomcat and IBM WebSphere platforms
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP network transport and related protocols, including HTTP; network device management ex. load balancers, proxies, firewalls; analysis of network packet captures
• Knowledge of network security, including but not limited to X.509 Certificates, PKI, SSL/TLS, Kerberos/SPNEGO
• Strong familiarity with database server implementations including DB2, MS SQL and Sybase; ability to understand and write SQL statements
• Knowledge on ASP.NET core on linux is a bonus..
• Knowledge of Virtualization and Storage Area Networks is a bonus
• Troubleshooting skills is a requirement. Need to have experience in Memory/Heap/thread/Crash Dumps using Debugdiag/Windbg/Eclipse or any dump analysis tools
• Candidate should show strong knowledge with Windows and / or Linux OS - Virtualization, storage, clustering
• Candidate should show strong knowledge with the following Web Server technologies: IIS/ASP.Net/Apache/Tomcat
• Knowledge of methods used to measure system and application performance
• Knowledge of HTTP protocol required (Extrahop, Wireshark) as well as core protocols DNS/DHCP/Kerberos. Knowledge of TCP/IP and SSL/TLS is a plus
• Basic development skills with .Net and / or Java
• Knowledge of relational databases (DB2 / MS SQL)
• Experience with Splunk, Logparser, Prometheous, Loki / Grafana
• Ability to think creatively, proactively, and independently; ability to interact with a variety of teams throughout the organization; ability to facilitate meetings, prepares reports and manage metrics
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to establish and maintain positive and effective work relationships with co-workers, clients, members, providers and customers
• Excellent communication and writing skills; must be able to document analysis and recommendations for both technical and business audiences.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $109,000 and $175,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).