Lead Cloud Platform Architect – GCP & Kubernetes

474 MS Services Group, Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive employee benefits

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is hiring a Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Architect in the Technology division to shape the ETRADE cloud platform on Google Cloud Platform. You will design, implement, and govern secure, scalable, and automated platform capabilities across engineering, security, and risk teams.

The role emphasizes building reusable patterns, advancing CI/CD, and enabling production readiness with strong collaboration across enterprise stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, including IAM, landing zones, and org policies.
• Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps, policy as code, automated testing, and release governance.
• Exposure to financial services controls and risk governance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end platform engineering architecture for ETRADE cloud capabilities from design through production readiness.
• Define target-state and migration architectures for cloud applications moving to secure cloud-native platforms.
• Develop reference architectures, principles, and reusable patterns for platform services.
• Design landing-zone capabilities: networking, identity, security controls, logging, and governance.
• Create platform patterns for Kubernetes, workloads, APIs, event-driven services, and observability.
• Guide GCP capabilities using GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, and Monitoring.
• Define self-service provisioning and repeatable workload onboarding for secure developer experience.
• Mentor teams on platform architecture standards and production-readiness expectations.

Skills

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Security

Platform engineering

Tools

GKE

Cloud Storage

Cloud Monitoring

Terraform

Job description

Morgan Stanley is hiring a Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Architect in the Technology division to shape the ETRADE cloud platform on Google Cloud Platform. You will design, implement, and govern secure, scalable, and automated platform capabilities across engineering, security, and risk teams.

The role emphasizes building reusable patterns, advancing CI/CD, and enabling production readiness with strong collaboration across enterprise stakeholders.