Threat Hunt DevOps Engineer

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Threat Hunt DevOps Engineer position at Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for providing specialist cyber expertise and creating solutions that protect the organization's systems and networks against actual and potential security threats and vulnerabilities.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on.

Threat Hunt is looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join its team. Threat Hunt’s mission is to identify attacks against the Morgan Stanley network, engineer detection strategies, and reduce risk to Morgan Stanley assets. As a Threat Hunt engineer, you will be tasked with developing new large-scale analysis dataflows, analysis systems, and analytics to help defend Morgan Stanley’s networks. The team leads in agentic AI cybersecurity tooling and extensively leverages their own self-managed on-prem GPU compute to combat cybersecurity and fraud threats against clients.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Leverage coding and system design expertise throughout the DevOps lifecycle to implement and optimize system features in the Threat Hunt technology stack.
• Expertise building and maintaining containerized systems.
• Passionate about new technology in automation and observability in complex systems.
• Self-motivated individual who will take ownership of tasks and project.
• Excited about collaboration with others in a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Manage time and tasks to effectively.
• Eagerness to understand complex problems and requirements, an aptitude for translating these problems into workable designs and solutions, and a keen eye for detail.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Strong development experience involving complex systems using modular coding in Python.
• Data engineering experience.
• Knowledge of modern distributed systems architecture (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).
• 5-12 years of relevant hands-on experience.
• Eagerness to learn new systems and technologies.
• Understanding of Linux systems and OS fundamentals.
• Capable of self-teaching, self-testing, and independent problem-solving.
• Python ecosystem experience (pypi, uv, etc.).
• AI infrastructure and agentic tooling experience.
• Cybersecurity experience.
• Data science experience (pandas, SQL, etc.).
• Site reliability engineering experience (testing, resilience, fault-preventative architecting).

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.

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Salary range for the position: $140,000 and $195,000 per year. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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.