Cloud Platform Architect
Morgan Stanley2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end platform engineering architecture for ETRADE cloud capabilities from conceptual design through production readiness.
- Define target-state, transitional, migration, landing-zone, networking, identity, security, governance, resilience, and operational architectures.
- Create reusable reference architectures, platform patterns, paved roads, standards, guardrails, decision records, and self-service blueprints.
- Design and guide GCP capabilities using GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, and Cloud Monitoring.
- Develop Kubernetes and GKE patterns covering private clusters, workload identity, secrets, ingress, autoscaling, network policy, security, resiliency, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
- Establish architecture for infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, policy-as-code, configuration management, automated testing, vulnerability scanning, artifact governance, and environment promotion.
- Define secure connectivity and IAM patterns across GCP, AWS, enterprise data centers, SaaS providers, and external services.
- Design high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restoration, capacity, performance, observability, monitoring, and production-support patterns.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical evaluations, risk assessments, proofs of concept, and documentation of decisions, trade-offs, dependencies, and remediation actions.
- Create architecture diagrams, implementation guidance, migration documentation, decision records, and production-readiness standards.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to drive architecture decisions through implementation and closure.
- Mentor engineering teams on platform architecture standards, pattern adoption, non-functional requirements, and production readiness.
Requirements
- Professional experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, solution architecture, or a related technical discipline.
- Hands-on knowledge of Google Cloud Platform organizations, folders, projects, billing structures, IAM, service accounts, organization policies, shared VPCs, and landing zones.
- Experience with GCP compute, containers, storage, networking, security, messaging, databases, monitoring, and automation services.
- Working knowledge of Google Kubernetes Engine and Kubernetes, including private clusters, node pools, workload identity, network policies, ingress, autoscaling, upgrades, security, and resiliency.
- Knowledge of GCP networking including VPCs, subnets, routing, firewall policies, Private Service Connect, private service access, Cloud NAT, Cloud DNS, load balancing, VPN, and dedicated connectivity.
- Strong infrastructure foundation across compute, storage, networking, DNS, load balancing, proxies, firewalls, certificates, secrets, and key management.
- Experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code technologies, CI/CD, GitOps, policy-as-code, automated testing, vulnerability scanning, and release governance.
- Understanding of platform-as-a-product, self-service capabilities, reusable templates, paved roads, developer experience, automation, and platform lifecycle management.
- Familiarity with cloud migration, modernization, rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, containerization, decomposition, and phased migration patterns.
- Familiarity with APIs, API gateways, microservices, event-driven architecture, messaging, caching, relational databases, and NoSQL platforms.
- Ability to define monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, audit logging, service-level indicators, and service-level objectives.
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restoration, capacity planning, performance engineering, cost optimization, and operational readiness.
- Experience creating architecture diagrams, reference patterns, standards, architecture decision records, and implementation guidance.
- Preferred experience with large-scale cloud transformation, AWS architecture, hybrid or multi-cloud environments, digital-assets platforms, financial-services workloads, FinOps, service mesh, container security, software-supply-chain security, zero-trust architecture, and regulated-industry controls.
- Google Cloud, AWS, Kubernetes, security, networking, or enterprise architecture certifications are preferred.
Benefits
- Morgan Stanley offers comprehensive employee benefits and perks and support for employees and their families.
- The company provides opportunities for career mobility across the business.
- Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and advancement based on skills and talents.
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About Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, sales and trading, wealth management, and investment management to corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. It earns fees, commissions, and interest and trading income across advisory, underwriting, brokerage, and asset management businesses. Founded in 1935 and headquartered in New York, the public company operates in more than 40 countries through thousands of offices, including a large U.S. wealth management franchise.