GCP Cloud Performance Engineering Lead

Morgan Stanley; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking an experienced Performance Engineering Cloud Lead to define and drive the strategy for GCP transformation. You will act as SME for cloud-native performance, guiding architecture decisions, and ensuring performance, resiliency, and observability across multi-region deployments.

This role partners with Architecture, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to establish standards, conduct benchmarks, and certify target architectures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Performance Engineering for distributed systems and large-scale apps.
• Experience supporting cloud migrations or modernization efforts.
• Strong knowledge of autoscaling, caching, and multi-region deployments.
• Hands-on with cloud-native observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Performance Engineering strategy for GCP.
• Lead performance assessments, benchmarks, and studies.
• Establish standards, guardrails, and non-functional requirements.
• Design performance validation frameworks (load, stress, endurance).
• Develop baselines and capacity models for multi-region architectures.
• Remediate performance bottlenecks across stack layers.
• Introduce modern testing, monitoring, and automation for continuous validation.
• Define governance for performance certification of workloads.
• Communicate risks and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Skills

GCP experience

Cloud-native architecture

Kubernetes / GKE

Observability tooling

Performance modeling

Bottleneck analysis

Data-driven recommendations

Excellent communication

Tools

LoadRunner

JMeter

Grafana

Prometheus

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

Splunk

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking an experienced Performance Engineering Cloud Lead to define and drive the strategy for GCP transformation. You will act as SME for cloud-native performance, guiding architecture decisions, and ensuring performance, resiliency, and observability across multi-region deployments.

This role partners with Architecture, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to establish standards, conduct benchmarks, and certify target architectures.