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Observability Engineer - 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: Observability Engineer
Role description
We are looking for a strong technologist and a doer who is willing to lead by example by being hands on every day. This role will be supporting Institutional Securities and Wealth Management brokerage Operations platforms which include diverse technologies. The role is expected to improve the reliability of our systems by working with the Software developers and Infrastructure engineering teams to develop automated reliability solutions. Using automation will help evolve our systems that will increase our velocity in managing uptime mitigate 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 for the right candidate.

Responsibilities:
>Opportunity to drive modern Observability platform by modernising the existing monitoring tool set by integrating new observability tools with end user applications.
>Working with a team of incredibly talented and dedicated peers with hands on experience in cutting-edge cloud and Observability products
>A chance to share best practices and create innovative application monitoring standards and logging solutions to modernise observability
>Working with and integrating - Provide telemetry and logging capabilities to developers and SRE organizations as part of the firms devops efforts Required skills:
>At least 5 years of relevant experience
>Experience of one or more of the following observability tools: Jaegar AppDynamics Dynatrace Loki ElasticSearch Prometheus DataDog Zabbix Graphana or Splunk.
>Site Reliability Engineering SRE or Production Management interested in pursuing an SRE role
>Experience of programming languages preferably Java or python
>Experience turning research ideas into actionable designs.
>Able to persuade stakeholders and champion effective techniques through product development
>Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as presentation skills
>Comfortable with customers with focus on customer interaction and client experience
>Ability to provide mentoring and contribute to local office leadership
>Proficiency with Linux operating system and databases
>Understanding of how various software components involved in enterprise service delivery interact: web servers application servers databases web services mainframes network attached storage and so forth

Nice to have:
>Experience of integrating end user applications with monitoring and APM tools.
>Experience instrumenting applications for transaction tracing and metric collection
>Working experience of regular expressions in data extraction from log files
>Understanding and familiarity with log parsing
>Advanced degree in a relevant field is desirable.
>Design and monitor tools to measure a particular problem or the contribution of a particular technique over time
>Work closely with a cross functional team to design new features and resolve issues as they arise
>Familiarity with the network and application monitoring space a plus
>Experience with Extrahop and Appdynamics (or similar products)
>Due to the roles integration within APM team prior experience in Application Performance Management (APM) is a big plus.
>Database experience with at least one of the following: MySQL DB2 or MSSQL
>Understanding of enterprise-architecture concepts: 3-tier architecture high-availability/disaster recovery (active-active data centers redundant switch stacks and so forth)
>Experience with DevOps tooling

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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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds talents perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.