Lead Trading Infrastructure Engineer (Linux and Automation)

96 Morgan Stanley UK Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley in London seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and maintain robust, scalable infrastructure automation systems in a hands-on leadership role. You will own end-to-end delivery of infrastructure projects, mentor engineers, and drive reliability and performance in a fast-paced trading environment.

You will collaborate with developers, SREs and administrators to implement resilient platforms, streamline operations, and apply best practices in automation, monitoring

Qualifications

• Strong Python programming experience.
• Expertise in Unix/Linux and networking basics.
• Experience architecting large-scale infrastructure.
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and support new infrastructure solutions for algorithmic trading.
• Collaborate with development groups, admins and engineers to reduce costs and manage risk.
• Act as SME for Linux-based electronic trading infrastructure.
• Mentor, coach and lead engineers.
• Provide technical leadership for a small team of engineers and SREs.
• Drive continuous improvement via reviews, blameless post-mortems and SRE practices.

Skills

Python

Unix/Linux

System design

Infrastructure automation

Leadership

Go

Tools

Git

Jenkins

tcpdump

strace

CI/CD

TDD

Job description

Morgan Stanley in London seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and maintain robust, scalable infrastructure automation systems in a hands-on leadership role. You will own end-to-end delivery of infrastructure projects, mentor engineers, and drive reliability and performance in a fast-paced trading environment.

You will collaborate with developers, SREs and administrators to implement resilient platforms, streamline operations, and apply best practices in automation, monitoring