Senior Platform Engineer - Parametric

474 MS Services Group, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Prescription Drug

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Paid Time Off

Short/Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to partner with cloud-native development teams and empower them to deliver high-velocity software. You will build reusable components and workflows to improve developer experience and scale operations across AWS/Azure environments.

The role requires expertise in IaC, CI/CD, and observability, plus mentoring and architecture evolution to increase flexibility and ease of use.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years hands-on Platform Engineering (DevOps/SRE) with leadership.
• 5+ years cloud-native solution architectures, IaC, observability.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and operate reliable, secure cloud-native applications.
• Design, document, and maintain highly available systems.
• Implement centralized monitoring and feedback for dev teams.
• Collaborate to create automation, tooling, and CI/CD workflows.
• Mentor junior teammates and share process improvements.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE

Cloud-native architectures

Automation

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub

YAML

Datadog

Splunk

Sentry

Job description

ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

ABOUT PARAMETRIC

Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings. This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABOUT THE TEAM

• Consult and collaborate with cloud-native (AWS, Azure) and self-hosted application teams to deliver and operate reliable, performant, robust, and secure applications
• Automate provisioning of non-production environment for application development and testing
• Design, operate, and manage development toolchains and CI/CD pipelines to meet objectives for high-velocity delivery while also meeting control requirements
• Build and maintain container orchestration on Kubernetes
• Provide observability via monitoring tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Sentry etc.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Platform Engineer will partner with cloud-native application development teams with direct business alignment - empowering them to deliver quality software at high velocity, rapidly receive actionable feedback, and cultivating an environment of continuous experimentation. Additionally, the Senior Platform Engineer will create reusable components and workflows that deliver superior developer experience.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Function as subject matter expert in the areas of delivering and operating reliable, performant, robust, and secure applications
• Work with the development teams to design, document, create and maintain highly available systems
• Design, implement, and manage centralized monitoring solutions that provide expedient actionable feedback to the development teams
• Partner with the application development teams to create flows, processes, automation, and tooling
• Create an environment of continuous experimentation and learning
• Contribute to evolution of our architecture (cloud-focused) to increase its flexibility and ease of use
• Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate
• Mentor new or less senior members of the team
• Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity
• Provide tier 2 and 3 escalations for related issues and questions

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related area of study
• 5+ years of hands‑on Platform Engineering (i.e., DevOps, SysOps, SRE) experience with a proven track record of people and thought leadership to achieve strategic objectives
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with cloud-native solution architectures and related platform support, i.e., Cyber Security, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Observability
• Ability to dive deep and get hands‑on to contribute to platform engineering solutions
• Expertise in automation strategies for cloud-native solutions (pipelines, IAC, test suites)
• Proven experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
• Experience implementing IAC - Terraform preferred
• Experience using GitHub and engineering YAML based ci/cd pipelines
• Experience implementing and operating container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Developer enablement mindset with an ability to collaborate across technology teams
• Experience with Vulnerability Management tooling (SAST and SCA scanning) integration with SDLC toolchain
• Experience using Gen AI tooling for software development and testing productivity
• Expertise scripting with Python, BASH, PowerShell

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 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. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.

Salary range for the position: $78,000 - 185,000/Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit's incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component.

Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including

• Medical
• Prescription Drug
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Dependent Day Care Savings Account
• Life Insurance
• Disability and Other Insurance Plans
• Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually)
• 10 Paid Holidays
• 401(k)
• Short/Long Term Disability
• other special perks reserved for our employees

Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents. Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.

At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for people, governments and institutions, always with a standard of excellence and guided by our core values.

Morgan Stanley is dedicated to providing first-class service to our clients, in a way that reflects our commitment to creating a more sustainable future and fostering stronger communities around the world.

In each line of business, we strive to demonstrate our belief in the power of transformative thinking, innovative strategies and leading-edge solutions—and in the ability of capital to work for the benefit of all society.