Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This role is responsible for configuring, deploying, and maintaining virtual machines and containerized applications, using Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management. You will provide specialized support for high-stakes production deployments, lead incident response for technical escalations, and apply SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, automation, and reliability engineering) to improve availability, performance, and operational excellence in a multi-cloud environment.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Platform Engineering (AWS / Azure / GCP)
Architect, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform (IaC).
Design and implement cloud landing zones aligned with best practices:
Account/subscription/project structure, environment separation, identity boundaries
Baseline guardrails and policy enforcement (Azure Policy, AWS Organizations/SCPs, GCP Org Policies)
Centralized audit logging, monitoring, and cost allocation standards
Build and operate cloud-native virtual network constructs (cloud-focused only):
Azure: VNETs, subnets, NSGs, route tables, Private Endpoints, hub/spoke patterns.
AWS: VPCs, subnets, security groups, NACLs, route tables, VPC endpoints/PrivateLink, multi-account connectivity patterns.
GCP: VPC networks, subnets, firewall rules, routes, Private Service Connect, Shared VPC patterns.
Implement private-by-default service access patterns (private endpoints, controlled egress, service-to-service access controls).
Compute, Virtual Machines, and Containers
Configure, deploy, and maintain virtual machines and scalable compute patterns:
AWS EC2 (Launch Templates, Auto Scaling Groups)
Azure Virtual Machines / VM Scale Sets
GCP Compute Engine / Managed Instance Groups
Own OS hardening, baseline configuration, patching strategies, and instance bootstrapping (cloud-init, image pipelines).
Deploy and operate containerized workloads using Kubernetes:
EKS / AKS / GKE (cluster design, upgrades, node pools, RBAC, scaling)
Container registries (ECR / ACR / Artifact Registry) and artifact promotion strategies
Implement workload delivery patterns (Helm/Kustomize), rollout strategies (blue/green, canary), and safe rollbacks.
Infrastructure as Code, Automation & CI/CD (Terraform)
Build reusable, versioned Terraform modules with standards for naming, tagging/labels, and secure defaults.
Implement Terraform best practices: remote state, locking, environment isolation, secrets handling, and drift detection.
Integrate IaC into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI):
Automated validation, linting, security scanning, plan/apply workflows, approvals, and promotions
Implement policy-as-code guardrails (OPA/Conftest, Sentinel where applicable) to prevent unsafe changes.
SRE: Reliability Engineering, Observability & Operational Excellence
Define, implement, and improve SLIs/SLOs (availability, latency, error rates, saturation) for critical services and platforms.
Manage and enforce error budgets to balance reliability with delivery velocity.
Establish and continuously improve observability standards:
Metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting across cloud services and Kubernetes
Tooling such as CloudWatch, Azure Monitor/Log Analytics, GCP Cloud Monitoring/Logging, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana (where used)
Improve incident detection quality by reducing alert noise, implementing actionable alerts, and creating clear escalation paths.
Drive reliability improvements through:
Capacity planning, performance tuning, load testing support
Resilience engineering (multi-zone design, graceful degradation, retries/timeouts, backpressure)
Continuous automation to eliminate toil (self-healing, auto-remediation runbooks, ChatOps where applicable)
Production Support, Incident Response & Escalations
Security, Identity, and Governance
Required Skills & Experience
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients - helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that's differentiated - and we've done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren't just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you'll 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. There's also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $150,000 and $210,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm offering a complete range of financial services to a large and diversified group of clients and customers, including governments, corporations, institutions and individuals throughout the world. The talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity and excellence. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and to grow.