Application Development

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will:

· Apply technical skills to design, build and automate middleware platforms both on-premises and cloud.

· Partner with other groups in Morgan Stanley such as Enterprise Infrastructure, MIS, Networking, Security, Storage, Database and Data Center teams to roll out middleware platforms successfully as per best practices.

· Coordinate signoffs for non-functional requirement testing with development and business teams.

· Maintain a 360-degree view of applications and their underlying middleware and infrastructure components.

· Produce reusable infrastructure and middleware designs patterns for future reference and refresh existing ones on a regular basis.

· Support vendor / vendor technology onboarding following Morgan Stanley best practices and security blueprints.

· Adopt, build and rollout new technology stacks for NFRT for cloud-based and on-prem applications.

· Automate daily support functions, improve system stability, support hygiene initiatives and deliver innovation that creates efficiency and consistency.


Required Skills

· Strong infrastructure knowledge in Linux / Unix, Storage and Networking

· Hands-on experience with load balancers, web servers (Apache / Nginx), application servers (Tomcat) to include application integration, configuration, and troubleshooting.

· Expert level scripting skills using Python (mandatory) and Shell

· Familiar with IT Automation & Config Management tools (Ansible / Helm)

· Experience with source control and continuous integration / continuous delivery pipelines (Jenkins, Artifactory, Flux)

· Familiar with security hardening concepts for hosting applications or middleware, including transport encryption, modern single-sign on authentication and authorization mechanisms

· Basic operational knowledge of RDBMS and SQL.

· Hands-on experience on Cloud platforms (Azure or AWS), Docker/Podman containers, Kubernetes / OpenShift

· Prior experience managing large web-based n-tier applications in secure environments on cloud


Desired / Nice to have skills

· Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, Airflow

· Exposure and experience in open-source Observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and Loki)

· Identity management protocols like OIDC / OAuth, SAML, LDAP integration

· Exposure to Big Data platforms like Hadoop / ELK Stack

· Capacity planning and performance tuning of applications and middleware platforms

· A system architecture / developer work experience


Experience

· 7 plus years in a similar role of hands-on application / middleware specialist.

· Prior experience of working in a global financial organization is an advantage