DevOps Engineer

Job Description

*About UsMorgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. We advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for governments, institutions and individuals. 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. We provide you a superior foundation for building a professional career where you can learn, achieve and grow. Technology/Role/Department at Morgan Stanley Technology is the key differentiator that ensures that we manage our global businesses and serve clients on a market-leading platform that is resilient, safe, efficient, smart, fast and flexible. Technology redefines how we do business in global, complex and dynamic financial markets. We have a large number of award winning technology platforms that help to propel our Firm s businesses to be the top in the market. Our India technology teams are based in Mumbai and Bengaluru. We have built strong techno-functional teams which partner with our offices globally taking global ownership of systems and products. We have a vibrant and diverse mix of technologists working on different technologies and functional domains. There is a large focus on innovation, inclusion, giving back to the community and sharing knowledge. The MSDE (Morgan Stanley Development Environment) department team is responsible for all aspects of managing and maintaining a set of enterprise hosted developer enablement tools that are used throughout Morgan Stanley s global IT development community. These include open source, 3rd party vendor tools, and proprietary developed software to integrate these into a cohesive development toolchain. MSDE uses a blend of on-prem Morgan Stanley infrastructure and externally hosted cloud environments. Our services are mission critical as they sit in the critical path to release pipelines used by thousands of developers daily. These tools include SCM (Git/Bitbucket), Issue Tracking (Jira), CI/CD (Jenkins and TeamCity), Code Quality (Sonar), Binary Artifacts (Artifactory) and Open Source Software Scanning (Xray).The Site Reliability Engineering team (SRE) drive the reliability, recoverability and operational efficiency of this product portfolio. Reporting to the SRE Lead, key features of this role include implementing advanced observability, troubleshooting complex systems, task automation, and technical debt management. Members of the SRE team are expected to work closely with the development community on day to day usage of the products, as well with our internal development and engineering squads, and the offshore support team that provide first line support. Team members will also be expected to work with the infrastructure provisioning teams on a regular basis to ensure smooth running of the Morgan Stanley Development Environment toolchain. Candidates will have the technical skills required to support these products on a Linux platform. Prior task automation experience in at least one programming language is expected, and through that some user experience with typical software development lifecycle toolchains. Hands-on experience with at least one pillar of observability is required and ideally experience in defining system monitoring, not just reacting to alerts. Cloud experience is not necessary, as training can be provided, but it would be an advantage.Responsibilities include:

• Building and maintaining knowledge front to back of the Morgan Stanley Development Environment, and then specializing in one or two of its systems
• Maximizing the availability and performance of supported systems through optimized and automated plant management, ongoing problem management, and architecture reviews with product delivery engineers
• Reduction of the cost of support (hours of effort) through the elimination of operational issues, optimization and automation of tasks, development of operational tools and driving client self-service to minimize constraints
• Identification and prioritization of technical debt that risks instability or creates wasteful operational toil
• Consult with clients (the Firm s internal development community) to maximize their productivity, including troubleshooting toolchain issues
• Being operationally responsive, including sharing on-call rotation with the rest of a large, global team (with a time-off in lieu system)

, *Required Qualifications / Skills

• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills
• Task automation experience in any programming language
• Practical experience of at least one pillar of observability (metrics, logs or traces)
• Exhibit working knowledge in at least ONE of the following areas
  • SQL
  • REST services (API)
  • Load balancing and networking
  • Performance troubleshooting and resolution
  • Security/authentication layers such as Kerberos, SiteMinder or SPNEGO and SSL/TLS
  • Web app hosting technology, such as Apache and Tomcat
  • Confident collaboration skills

Desired Skills

• Python development for task automation
• Experience with site reliability engineering practices, like service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, blameless postmortems, toil reduction
• Knowledge of any of these technologies:
  • Any developer toolchain product like Bitbucket, Git, Jira, Jenkins, TeamCity
  • Artifactory or Nexus repository managers
  • Azure DevOps and Azure Kubernetes
  • Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
  • Ansible, Terraform

Keyskills :
linuxjenkinsgitmavenautomationsoftware development life cycleopen source softwareopen sourceservice levelit development