VP SRE & Production Reliability Lead

Morgan Stanley; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking an experienced SRE/Production Support Lead (VP level) to oversee the production environment, ensure reliability of deployed software, and drive performance optimization. The role spans incident management, automation, and cross-team collaboration across wealth management platforms.

The ideal candidate has extensive enterprise experience, strong scripting and cloud skills, and a proactive, coaching mindset to mentor teammates while maintaining 24/7 service availability.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience developing and/or supporting enterprise applications.
• Five or more years’ experience leading a small to medium team.
• Hands-on professional who understands both code and infrastructure.
• Experience with Agile and DevOps/SRE concepts.
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Strong Unix shell scripting skills.
• Proficiency in at least one major language (Python/Java/C#).
• Experience in the Financial Services domain is a plus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with on-call incident management.

Responsibilities

• Proactively detect, troubleshoot, and resolve issues affecting production applications with cross-team coordination.
• Maintain clear, concise, and timely communication during outages.
• Ensure production environment stability and reliability of platforms.
• Develop and revise policies to guide production deployment and standards.
• Ensure Change Management guidelines are followed for production systems.
• Handle data access requests and production data activities.
• Collaborate with development teams to meet production standards.
• Build and maintain a knowledge base to reduce dependency on external resources.
• Perform DevOps/SRE roles in application support, platform stability, and resiliency.
• Produce documentation, standards, training materials, and conduct knowledge sharing.

Skills

SRE Leadership

DevOps

Unix Shell

Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Incident Management

Automation

On-call

Communication

Programming

AI Tools

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Kibana

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking an experienced SRE/Production Support Lead (VP level) to oversee the production environment, ensure reliability of deployed software, and drive performance optimization. The role spans incident management, automation, and cross-team collaboration across wealth management platforms.

The ideal candidate has extensive enterprise experience, strong scripting and cloud skills, and a proactive, coaching mindset to mentor teammates while maintaining 24/7 service availability.