Lead Platform Engineer - Parametric

Morgan Stanley • Alpharetta, GA

3d • $115,000 - $225,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Platform Engineer will partner with cloud-native application development teams with direct business alignment - empowering them to deliver quality software at high velocity, rapidly receive actionable feedback, and cultivating an environment of continuous experimentation. Additionally, the Lead Platform Engineer will create reusable components and workflows that deliver superior developer experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 8+ years of hands-on Platform Engineering (i.e., DevOps, SysOps, SRE) experience with a proven track record of people and thought leadership to achieve strategic objectives
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native solution architectures and related platform support, i.e., Cyber Security, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Observability
• Serve as technical lead for strategic projects, providing architectural guidance, driving technical decisions, and ensuring alignment across teams.
• Influence engineering standards, best practices, and technology direction while mentoring and developing less experienced team members.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical solutions.
• Ability to dive deep and get hands-on to contribute to platform engineering solutions
• Expertise in automation strategies for cloud-native solutions (pipelines, IAC, test suites)
• Proven experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
• Experience implementing IAC - Terraform preferred
• Experience using GitHub and engineering YAML based ci/cd pipelines
• Experience implementing and operating container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Developer enablement mindset with an ability to collaborate across technology teams
• Experience with Vulnerability Management tooling (SAST and SCA scanning) integration with SDLC toolchain
• Experience using Gen AI tooling for software development and testing productivity
• Expertise scripting with Python, BASH, PowerShell

Responsibilities

• Function as subject matter expert in the areas of delivering and operating reliable, performant, robust, and secure applications
• Serve as a technical lead for key initiatives, influencing technical strategy, driving best practices, and ensuring successful delivery of business objectives.
• Mentor and develop team members through coaching, knowledge sharing, and constructive technical guidance.
• Work with the development teams to design, document, create and maintain highly available systems
• Partner with the application development teams to create flows, processes, automation, and tooling
• Create an environment of continuous experimentation and learning
• Contribute to evolution of our architecture (cloud-focused) to increase its flexibility and ease of use
• Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate
• Share experience, knowledge, and ideas with the team to improve processes and productivity
• Provide tier 2 and 3 escalations for related issues and questions

Benefits

• 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)
• Short/Long Term Disability

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior