VP Site Reliability Engineer — Production Reliability Leader

Morgan-Stanley; Town of Islip (NY); On-site; USD 155,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Vice President-level Lead Site Reliability Engineer to own production reliability and drive SRE practices across Wealth Management Tech platforms.

You will champion SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management, while coordinating with engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure uptime and resilience. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and scalable architectures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a production environment with solid software development background.
• 5+ years leading a small to medium team of similar skillsets.
• 5+ years driving SRE principles and Chaos Engineering in cloud environments.
• 2+ years supporting/deploying applications in AWS/GCP.
• 2+ years working with Digital Assets/Blockchain-connected infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Define and champion SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management).
• Own end-to-end production reliability and triage of critical issues.
• Lead incident response across apps, infra, and vendors until service restoration.
• Advance automation and observability for proactive reliability, reducing MTTR.
• Collaborate with engineering to bake reliability into new services and architectures.

Skills

Production SRE leadership

Chaos Engineering

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Blockchain/digital assets

Scripting (Shell/Python)

AI for ops

Databases (DB2/Sybase/Oracle)

Observability tools (Grafana/PromQL/S플

Incident management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Kibana

AWS

GCP

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Vice President-level Lead Site Reliability Engineer to own production reliability and drive SRE practices across Wealth Management Tech platforms.

You will champion SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management, while coordinating with engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure uptime and resilience. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and scalable architectures.