Lead Cloud Platform Architect, GCP & Platform Engineering

Morgan-Stanley; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Architect at the Director level to own and shape end-to-end platform engineering architecture for ETRADE cloud capabilities on GCP. You will work across teams to define target-state architectures, reusable patterns, and secure cloud-native migrations, guiding implementation and production readiness.

The role focuses on designing landing zones, IAM, networking, security controls, and observability, while promoting self-service

Responsibilities

• Own and contribute to end-to-end platform engineering architecture for ETRADE cloud capabilities, from conceptual design through implementation and production readiness.
• Define target-state, transitional, and migration architectures for applications moving from existing environments to secure cloud-native platforms.
• Develop reference architectures, architecture principles, reusable patterns, standards, guardrails, and decision records for platform services.
• Design cloud landing-zone capabilities covering organization and project structures, networking, identity, security controls, logging, monitoring, policy enforcement, and operational governance.
• Create platform architecture patterns for Kubernetes, workload identity, APIs, event-driven services, data services, observability, resiliency, and automation.
• Design and guide GCP capabilities using GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, and Cloud Monitoring.
• Define platform product capabilities and paved-road patterns that enable secure self-service provisioning, consistent developer experience, and repeatable workload onboarding.
• Establish architecture for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, GitOps, policy as code, configuration management, automated testing, vulnerability scanning, artifact governance, and environment promotion.
• Design infrastructure architecture covering virtual networks, subnets, routing, firewalls, private connectivity, ingress, egress, DNS, proxies, load balancing, certificates, secrets, and key management.
• Define secure connectivity patterns across GCP, enterprise data centers, SaaS providers, external services, and AWS where required.
• Guide GKE and Kubernetes architecture including private clusters, workload identity, secrets management, ingress, autoscaling, network policy, cluster security, resiliency, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Define identity and access-management patterns for federation, service accounts, role-based access, workload identity, privileged access, and least-privilege controls.
• Define high-availability, disaster-recovery, backup, restoration, capacity, performance, observability, and production-support architecture patterns.
• Lead and participate in architecture reviews, technical evaluations, risk assessments, and POCs; document decisions, trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and remediation actions.
• Create and maintain context, logical, physical, deployment, security, network, integration, sequence, and data-flow architecture artifacts.
• Partner with product, application, engineering, security, infrastructure, risk, governance, and operations stakeholders to drive architecture decisions through implementation and closure.
• Mentor engineering teams on platform architecture standards, pattern adoption, non-functional requirements, and production-readiness expectations.

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Architect at the Director level to own and shape end-to-end platform engineering architecture for ETRADE cloud capabilities on GCP. You will work across teams to define target-state architectures, reusable patterns, and secure cloud-native migrations, guiding implementation and production readiness.

The role focuses on designing landing zones, IAM, networking, security controls, and observability, while promoting self-service