POSTED DATE

Apr 17, 2025
We’re seeking someone to join our Enterprise Computing team as a Linux System Administrator in Enterprise Tech & Services. The Enterprise Computing Unix Operations Level 3 team is responsible for maintaining a centrally managed global plant running on Solaris and Linux systems. This team serves as the highest level of escalation for support. On-call support and weekend work are also part of this role. The ideal candidate will need strong communication skills and be well organized.
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 Linux System Administrator position at an Associate level, which is part of the job family responsible for maintaining the stability and reliability of the organization’s infrastructure systems, ensuring optimal performance and availability to support business operations.
Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

CERTIFIED PERSONS REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS:

If this role is deemed a Certified role and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.

WHAT YOU’LL DO IN THE ROLE:

• Develop procedures and tools that enable Morgan Stanley’s distributed plant to scale effectively by eliminating repetitive operational tasks.
• Manage the usual core infrastructure parts such as DHCP, DNS, NTP and a self-maintained global software distribution system and its filesystem backend.
• Manage the physical system firmware and remotely troubleshoot hardware.
• Work with various customers in a number of different business units during outage scenarios and assist in scaling their plant.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE:

• Experience of supporting, managing and debugging large scale production environments
• Understanding of the virtualization and microservices and physical infrastructures
• In depth experience Linux System administration, preferably Red Hat Linux
• Knowledge of clustering technologies preferably Veritas Cluster Server or any other similar with high availability product conception
• Ability to read and write code on any Unix shell environment, Perl and/or Python
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, experience with host level networking and security concepts, implementation, and troubleshooting
• Ability to debug complex problems
• Experience with Change Management and Problem management practices
• Effective oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills are essential, as well as the ability to work well in a global team environment
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and high pressure situations for outage handling, management or resolution