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Team Overview:
Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading Infrastructure is looking for a hands-on Senior Systems Linux Systems Hardware Engineering Specialist. This is a player/coach role for a small team focused on identifying, designing, integrating, and building the low-latency operating system and physical infrastructure for Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading. The successful candidate will work in tight collaboration across our engineering, labs, release management, operations and estate management teams with a keen attention on performance, stability, quality, testing, and validation of surrounding dependencies.
What you bring to the table:
Linux Depth: Must be comfortable building systems from scratch, changing configuration and amending code-paths and debugging core-dumps Hardware Depth: Must be comfortable with the internals of servers and principles of drivers with a key focus FPGA Knowledge: Can demonstrate high-levels of proficiency oh the how / why for Hardware Acceleration in workloads and the most common methods of developing, deploying and managing this specialized hardware. Performance Depth: Tuning systems or networks of systems for performance brings out your best. Operational Excellence: Data excites you and you make decisions based on data rather than assumptions. You have done data analytics and pipelines from scratch to prove a point. Network Knowledge: demonstrating high levels of proficiency in network principles (routing & switching) for the first hop off the box as well a thorough understanding of the TCP/IP protocol stack. Leadership: We work in a fast-paced environment requiring clarity-of-thought and articulations across a diverse range of stakeholders to drive outcomes. Ability to identify work, work-independently and solve problems. Fearless Engineering: You move outside your comfort zone to pick up new skills and solve broader problems across the technology stack. Technical Excellence: You can speak to the trade-offs and and have implemented industry best practices in Infrastructure-as-Code, continuous delivery, automated testing, security practices, performance, high-availability and disaster-recovery. Minimum 15 years of experience.
What we bring to the table:
Opportunities to develop and grow as an engineer: We are always expanding into new areas, including exploring new technologies in our New York lab. A global team of incredibly capable and dedicated peers, from engineering through operations. A stable, collaborative and supportive work environment - We work together to get things done and adapt to the changing needs of our end-users and teams members. Breadth and Depth: We sit across all functions of the trading infrastructure which allows us to go deep to help optimize every manual and tedious task that we encounter regardless of platform or process. Growth and Mentorship: Opportunities to deliver projects of expanding impact, improve professional skills that complement technical skills and partner with senior leadership on objectives.
Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.
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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $140,000 and $200,000 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. #LI-SK1
