Consultant conversion Director, Lead Soft Prod Mgmt & RE

Azure support and devops specialist - Operations Production Management - Job Description

Company Profile
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking securities investment management and wealth management services. The Firms employees serve clients worldwide including corporations governments and individuals from more than 1200 offices in 43 countries.
As a market leader the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together we share a common set of values rooted in integrity excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.
Technology
Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the worlds leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global complex and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanleys sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems cutting-edge modelling and simulation software comprehensive risk and security systems and robust client-relationship capabilities plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients businesses and to our own.
Job Title: Azure support specialist
Role Description
You will: > Be responsible for stability and resilience of the critical Settlements flow at Morgan Stanley which includes diverse technologies hosted by on premises and cloud platforms. > Support the systems their end users and split your time evenly to also perform project tasks to improve the production environment. > Apply your technical and domain expertise to solve complex technical and business challenges. > Act as a buffer between support and development teams to keep problem resolution in production management team. > Use your concise communication skills to manage critical incidents ensuring all key management and business stakeholders are kept up to date. Focus on improving the performance observability scalability and reliability of our systems by working with the Software developers and Infrastructure engineering teams to develop automated reliability solutions. > Implement observability and telemetry systems that support our applications and APIs by providing data for SLIs and SLOs and drill down metrics. > Use automation to evolve our systems increasing our velocity in managing uptime and mitigating risk. > We are looking for the ideal candidate to improve our codebase in a growing area of The Firm that provides significant potential for career growth. You must have: A bachelors degree in computer science or related field. > 7 years experience in the IT industry of which at least 2 years in Level 3 Production Management in a multiple application environment on java based applications. > Experience in supporting application deployed on Azure Cloud. > Expert knowledge of observability and reliability tools and techniques in a cloud-native environment. > Expertise in analyzing debugging and troubleshooting large-scale distributed applications across multiple layers i.e. software Infrastructure and database. > Experience of working in Python Java code bases. > Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills. > Eagerness to share your own ideas and openness to those of others nice to haves but not required qualifications.
Technical skills: > Terraform or GitHub. > Azure Kubernetes Azure spring apps Azure Web apps AzureSQL Kafka. Azure ServiceBus > Experience instrumenting application services end point for logging metrics and events using Azure monitor/Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana. > Experience of observability design principles.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first doing the right thing leading with exceptional ideas committing to diversity and inclusion and giving back - arent just beliefs they guide the decisions we make every day to do whats best for our clients communities and more than 80000 employees in 1200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley youll 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. Theres also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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