Director, Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering
Company websitemorganstanley.com (Morgan Stanley, opens in new tab)
Base salary $160K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Alpharetta, GA
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- LocationAlpharetta, GA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (1 h ago) · observed since
About this job
Company Profile:
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.
In Technology, 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.
What you’ll do in the role:
Morgan Stanley Services Group, Inc. is seeking a Director, Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering in Alpharetta, GA to build, maintain, and improve general software applications and IT infrastructure specifically focusing on compute and storage, as well as modern public and private cloud infrastructure. Provide in-person and real-time support to businesses adopting modern cloud-based software. Design and develop software applications to use public cloud, private cloud, and modern cloud compatible technologies. Architect, design, engineer, and deploy private, public, and hybrid cloud IT infrastructure software, while giving consideration to performance, resiliency, high-availability, scalability, security and cost. Create documentation and deliver training to operations teams, software application developers, and business units on the features, benefits, limitations and appropriate use cases for private, public, and hybrid cloud platforms. Design software using the Python programming language and CI/CD pipelines, within the SDLC standards for development of software, tooling, scripts and automation around IT infrastructure. Integrate and support IT infrastructure components with existing company technologies for Identity Management, Role-based Access Control, IT Asset Management, Secrets Management, Encryption Key Management, Logging, Auditing, Alerting, Observability, and Capacity Management. Handle advanced troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for production software and infrastructure issues, and support operations teams during technical escalations and high severity incidents. Collaborate with vendors and internal stakeholders to resolve software concerns, manage support tickets, propose strategic improvements, request new features, and monitor overall health and capacity of infrastructure systems. Telecommuting permitted up to 60% of time.
What you’ll bring to the role:
-Requires a Bachelor's degree in Legal Studies, Information Technology, or a related field of study.
-Requires two (2) years of experience in the position offered or two (2) years as an Associate, or a closely related occupation.
-Requires two (2) years of experience with the following skills:
- Python programming including API frameworks (Flask or FastAPI), SQLAlchemy, and asyncio;
- Amazon AWS core services including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and Identity & Access Management (IAM);
- Enterprise-grade relational database management systems (IBM DB2), and SQL;
- Enterprise-grade distributed storage systems;
- CI/CD including Git, Jenkins, and Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers (Docker or Podman);
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift;
- TCP/IP networking (CCNA-level), DNS, and Load Balancing;
- HTTP and TLS/SSL protocols including Public Key Infrastructure and certificate management;
- Observability tools including Splunk, Loki, Prometheus, and Grafana;
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles;
- Data analysis, protocol debugging, log file, and root cause analysis;
- Developing for distributed systems, microservices, and big data applications; and
- Systems architecture including high availability, fault tolerance, redundancy, replication, and failover strategies.
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 $160,000 and $160,000 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.
Source: Morgan Stanley on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)
How this pay compares
Base floor $160,000. First observed today.
How Morgan Stanley pays
48 of Morgan Stanley's 297 live roles on this site list a higher base floor and 241 list a lower one. Across them the median floor is $125,000; the middle half runs from $115,000 to $155,000.
Base floors of Morgan Stanley's 297 live roles
Table
| Floor band | Share | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| $100K to $125K | 48.5% | 144 |
| $125K to $150K | 9.8% | 29 |
| $150K to $175K | 29.6% | 88 |
| $175K to $200K | 4.7% | 14 |
| $200K to $225K | 2.7% | 8 |
| $225K to $250K | 1.3% | 4 |
| $250K to $275K | 1.7% | 5 |
| $275K and up | 1.7% | 5 |
How this is calculated
- Statistic
- Employer base floor distribution
- Formula
- count of the employer's open roles in each $25K band of published base floor / its open roles
- Denominator
- 297 open public roles at this employer
- Sample size
- 297
- Hidden when
- this employer has fewer than 5 roles
- Calculation version
- jobpage-analysis-v1
- Data as of
- current
- Employer set
- Open jobs on this site that publish a base salary of $100,000 or more
This listingDirector, Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering$160K
Fixed Income Division - Executive Director/Vice President, FXEM Distribution COO (New York)From $160K
Fixed Income Division - Executive Director/Vice President, FXEM Distribution COO (New York)From $160K
Data Governance & Quality Lead$160,000 to $221,500
Fixed Income Division – Vice President, Digital Assets Strategy (New York)$160K to $250K
Engineering Lead | Equities Derivatives Technology | Executive Director$160K to $250K
Fixed Income Division - Municipal Securities - VP/ED, Structuring (New York)From $160K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Director, Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering (this listing) | $160K |
| Fixed Income Division - Executive Director/Vice President, FXEM Distribution COO (New York) | From $160K |
| Fixed Income Division - Executive Director/Vice President, FXEM Distribution COO (New York) | From $160K |
| Data Governance & Quality Lead | $160,000 - $221,500 |
| Fixed Income Division – Vice President, Digital Assets Strategy (New York) | $160K - $250K |
| Engineering Lead | Equities Derivatives Technology | Executive Director | $160K - $250K |
| Fixed Income Division - Municipal Securities - VP/ED, Structuring (New York) | From $160K |
Observed changes
No changes to the pay or listing since we first observed this role on Nov 9, 2026 (today).
- First observed on the employer's board, already publishing a qualifying base salary
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-11-09
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Alpharetta, Georgia, United States of America
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $160,000 and $160,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base p
- Method
- Employer text, read with fixed rules and re-verified
- Checked
- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The pay passage appears in the employer's own job text. Fixed, deterministic rules located it, and the passage below was checked against the stored copy of the posting.
What we verified
- The pay figures come from the employer's own listing, quoted exactly above.
- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
We do not verify what the employer will actually offer, whether the employer is still recruiting for the role, or anything beyond what the employer published. Full methodology.
