Cloud Security Engineer

In the Technology division, 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. This is a Lead Cyber Security Engineering position at Director level, which is part of the job family responsible for providing specialist cyber expertise and creating solutions that protect the organization's systems and networks against actual and potential security threats and vulnerabilities. Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals. The Cloud Security Engineer plays a critical role in the design, engineering, implementation, and operational support of the firm's multi-cloud infrastructure strategy across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This position is responsible for establishing and maintaining the foundational cloud services, security controls, networking architecture, identity solutions, automation frameworks, and platform integrations that enable secure, scalable, and resilient cloud adoption across the enterprise. As the organization continues to expand its cloud footprint and integrate acquired businesses, this role is essential to ensuring consistent governance, operational excellence, and security across diverse cloud environments. The Cloud Security Engineer serves as a key technical leader responsible for reducing risk, accelerating cloud adoption, enabling developer productivity, and supporting critical business initiatives through standardized cloud platforms and automation.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Design, implement, and manage foundational cloud services across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including landing zones, organizational structures, identity and access management, networking, security services, and shared platform capabilities.
• Develop and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures aligned with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Build and automate cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep, and associated CI/CD pipelines.
• Partner with Security, Networking, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, Application Development, and Operations teams to deliver secure‑by‑design cloud solutions.
• Establish and maintain cloud governance, guardrails, monitoring, logging, and compliance controls across all supported cloud service providers.
• Drive cloud modernization, standardization, and integration initiatives across new business acquisitions and legacy environments to ensure alignment with enterprise cloud operating models.
• Support developer enablement through the creation of reusable platform services, automation capabilities, reference architectures, and self‑service cloud solutions.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and operational issues across multi‑cloud environments.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and recommend strategic improvements that enhance security, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with risk, audit, compliance, and regulatory teams to support assessments, control validation, remediation activities, and evidence collection.
• Contribute to cloud strategy, architecture reviews, technical standards, and long‑term platform roadmaps.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing and supporting enterprise‑scale cloud infrastructure and services.
• Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, with the ability to operate across multiple cloud providers.
• Strong experience with cloud networking, identity, security architecture, and governance models.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation technologies including Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience supporting highly regulated environments and working with audit, compliance, and security control frameworks.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles, DevSecOps practices, monitoring, observability, and operational resiliency.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex cloud transformation, migration, and integration efforts.

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. 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. At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for people, governments and institutions, always with a standard of excellence and guided by our core values. Morgan Stanley is dedicated to providing first‑class service to our clients, in a way that reflects our commitment to creating a more sustainable future and fostering stronger communities around the world. In each line of business, we strive to demonstrate our belief in the power of transformative thinking, innovative strategies and leading‑edge solutions—and in the ability of capital to work for the benefit of all society.