Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modeling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses-and to our own.

Morgan Stanley's Storage Engineering team is looking for an experienced Product Engineer / Backup Engineer to work on business critical projects.

The Storage Engineering team is responsible for designing and implementing storage and backup solutions and infrastructure for Morgan Stanley.

Role Profile:

The team is seeking a multi-talented product specialist who will focus on providing in-depth product domain knowledge for the backup infrastructure, currently based on Veritas NetBackup.

This role will involve performing engineering-level deep-dives into operational incidents and integrating third-party vendor backup solutions, alongside developing in-house applications that will become part of the technology platform for the business, including testing and capacity management tooling.

The candidate must have an understanding of the backup product space, particularly Veritas NetBackup 8.x or 9.x, tape drive and library technologies (LTO 8+), appropriate disk storage for backup technologies (including deduplication) and emerging technologies in the backup discipline. Ability to work as part of a global team is a requirement. In addition, the candidate must be able to listen to customer requirements and be able to advise, discuss and articulate technical solutions effectively.

Qualifications:

Required Skills:

• Excellent understanding of backup and data protection platforms, in particular Veritas NetBackup 8.x or 9.x
• Excellent understanding of data deduplication technology
• Good understanding of networking, including troubleshooting, performance and tuning
• Good understanding of the Linux operating system, particularly in debugging performance issues around backup products
• Good understanding of data protection issues particular to databases and database backup functionality (e.g. agent-based backups, RMAN, XBSA)
• Good programming skills in at least one scripting language, preferably Python
• Excellent ability to debug complex and novel issues, understanding the need to go beyond the documentation provided with a product
• Excellent interpersonal skills in dealing with customers with differing technical specializations
• Excellent analytical skills, capable of fast decision making using sound judgment, and not afraid to explore new ideas
• Good organizational and English communication skills are required, including prioritization of multiple projects and objectives

Desirable Skills:

• Systems administration experience in UNIX and/or Windows Server environments preferred but not required.
• Experience with software development life-cycle with large software development projects is desirable.
• Experience in other areas of storage (SAN, NAS, S3 object storage) desirable.
• Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift
• Experience of running a Proof of Concept project
• Low level debugging, such as strace, tcpdump, gdb, etc
• Experience in software vulnerability detection, security hardening and penetration testing