Senior Platform Engineer - Parametric
About Parametric
Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.
About The Team
The Platform Engineering team is part of Parametric IT's Developer Experience department at Parametric and is vital to developer enablement and system reliability in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). As a team, we:
- Consult and collaborate with cloud-native (AWS, Azure) and self-hosted application teams to deliver and operate reliable, performant, robust, and secure applications
- Automate provisioning of non-production environment for application development and testing
- Design, operate, and manage development toolchains and CI/CD pipelines to meet objectives for high-velocity delivery while also meeting control requirements
- Build and maintain container orchestration on Kubernetes
- Provide observability via monitoring tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Sentry etc.
About The Role
The Senior Platform Engineer will partner with cloud-native application development teams with direct business alignment - empowering them to deliver quality software at high velocity, rapidly receive actionable feedback, and cultivate an environment of continuous experimentation. Additionally, the Senior Platform Engineer will create reusable components and workflows that deliver superior developer experience.
Primary Responsibilities
- Function as subject matter expert in the areas of delivering and operating reliable, performant, robust, and secure applications
- Work with the development teams to design, document, create and maintain highly available systems
- Design, implement, and manage centralized monitoring solutions that provide expedient actionable feedback to the development teams
- Partner with the application development teams to create flows, processes, automation, and tooling
- Create an environment of continuous experimentation and learning
- Contribute to the evolution of our architecture (cloud-focused) to increase its flexibility and ease of use
- Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate
- Mentor new or less senior members of the team
- Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity
- Provide tier 2 and 3 escalations for related issues and questions
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related area of study
- 5+ years of hands-on Platform Engineering (i.e., DevOps, SysOps, SRE) experience with a proven track record of people and thought leadership to achieve strategic objectives
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native solution architectures and related platform support, i.e., Cyber Security, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Observability
- Expertise in automation strategies for cloud-native solutions (pipelines, IAC, test suites)
- Proven experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
- Experience implementing IAC - Terraform preferred
- Experience using GitHub and engineering YAML based ci/cd pipelines
- Experience implementing and operating container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Developer enablement mindset with an ability to collaborate across technology teams
- Experience with Vulnerability Management tooling (SAST and SCA scanning) integration with SDLC toolchain
- Experience using Gen AI tooling for software development and testing productivity
- Expertise scripting with Python, BASH, PowerShell