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  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Self Employed
  • 10 Mar 2020
Cloud Engineer, Associate

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries.  Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, a global leader in credit ratings and research; Fitch Solutions, an industry-leading provider of credit risk products and services; and Fitch Learning, a preeminent training and professional development firm.  With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst. 

 

Fitch complies with all laws governing employment in each jurisdiction in which it operates, and provides equal opportunity to all applicants and employees.  All applications will be considered without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, and other status protected by applicable laws.

 

Department overview:

 

Fitch Group is seeking an Associate Cloud Engineer to join the Cloud Engineering (CE) team within Fitch's IT Infrastructure Group.  Cloud Engineering partners in the design, deployment, and automation of application services across Fitch Group.

 

Our team is composed of backend Cloud Engineers and service-focused Site Reliability Engineers (SRE). We look for talented individuals who love working in cloud environments and automating wherever they can. As a senior engineering organization within the infrastructure, Cloud Engineering is well supported by Infrastructure Operations, Security, and DevOps Tools teams. CE serve as subject matter experts in both Linux and Cloud technologies across our company.

 

Job Description:

 

Fitch has adopted a "cloud first" mentality and has moved many workloads to Amazon Web Services.  Fitch is seeking an Associate Cloud Engineer to work as a SRE for Fitch Learning in London. They will partner with Fitch Learning Development and DevOps Tools to: move new service builds forward, containerize services, and for day to day service design and build needs. Service provisioning requirements include writing CloudFormation templates and Chef cookbooks for zero touch deployment.

 

The Engineer will support planning for releases and service updates. They are expected to deeply understand and support the environments they are responsible for. This role will be focused on improving CI/CD automation and service deployment in general. In addition, they join their peers in Cloud Engineering in overall environment design and support, including Level 3 on-call rotation.

 

Position Requirements:
  • Tightly partner with Development groups to build and deploy better services
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure automation tools
  • Production experience with Docker at scale
  • Partner with DevOps Tools to build and maintain CI/CD for service environments
  • Gain deep understanding of supported services
  • Implement system and service telemetry to improve reliability and availability
  • Develop deep insight into application and service performance
  • Execute on security best practices for cloud deployments
  • Ensure system security through industry best practices

 

 

The candidate must possess the following skills, experiences and qualities:

 
  • Solid experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, CloudFormation, Route53, ELB, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, etc.
  • Strong experience working with Linux, NGINX/Apache and PHP environments at enterprise scale
  • Background supporting large scale websites with CDN Services
  • Familiarity with APM and service telemetry environments
  • Experience with Chef, Puppet or Ansible (Chef Preferred) or Terraform
  • Ability to script using PHP, Python, Ruby and/or Java
  • Understanding of containerization and experience leveraging Docker
  • Solid knowledge of cloud security and best practices
  • Good working knowledge of Windows platforms
  • Solid background in network, storage and DNS services
  • Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills
  • Demonstrated ability to work well on collaborative, cross-functional teams. Solid interpersonal skills with ability to work effectively with people of all levels of information technology expertise with a wide range of constituencies and organizational relationships
  • Understanding of Project Management tools, techniques and methodologies including agile
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience preferred

 

#li-ac1

 

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch's credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts for you and your Family Members prior to commencing employment. If you, or your Family Members, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, they must be sold before beginning work. In certain roles, employees and their Family Members may be limited to investments in diversified mutual funds only.

For more information about this policy, please visit the Code of Ethics and Conduct page .

 

  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Self Employed
  • 10 Mar 2020
Cloud Engineer, Associate

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries.  Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, a global leader in credit ratings and research; Fitch Solutions, an industry-leading provider of credit risk products and services; and Fitch Learning, a preeminent training and professional development firm.  With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst. 

 

Fitch complies with all laws governing employment in each jurisdiction in which it operates, and provides equal opportunity to all applicants and employees.  All applications will be considered without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, and other status protected by applicable laws.

 

Department overview:

 

Fitch Group is seeking an Associate Cloud Engineer to join the Cloud Engineering (CE) team within Fitch's IT Infrastructure Group.  Cloud Engineering partners in the design, deployment, and automation of application services across Fitch Group.

 

Our team is composed of backend Cloud Engineers and service-focused Site Reliability Engineers (SRE). We look for talented individuals who love working in cloud environments and automating wherever they can. As a senior engineering organization within the infrastructure, Cloud Engineering is well supported by Infrastructure Operations, Security, and DevOps Tools teams. CE serve as subject matter experts in both Linux and Cloud technologies across our company.

 

Job Description:

 

Fitch has adopted a "cloud first" mentality and has moved many workloads to Amazon Web Services.  Fitch is seeking an Associate Cloud Engineer to work as a SRE for Fitch Learning in London. They will partner with Fitch Learning Development and DevOps Tools to: move new service builds forward, containerize services, and for day to day service design and build needs. Service provisioning requirements include writing CloudFormation templates and Chef cookbooks for zero touch deployment.

 

The Engineer will support planning for releases and service updates. They are expected to deeply understand and support the environments they are responsible for. This role will be focused on improving CI/CD automation and service deployment in general. In addition, they join their peers in Cloud Engineering in overall environment design and support, including Level 3 on-call rotation.

 

Position Requirements:
  • Tightly partner with Development groups to build and deploy better services
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure automation tools
  • Production experience with Docker at scale
  • Partner with DevOps Tools to build and maintain CI/CD for service environments
  • Gain deep understanding of supported services
  • Implement system and service telemetry to improve reliability and availability
  • Develop deep insight into application and service performance
  • Execute on security best practices for cloud deployments
  • Ensure system security through industry best practices

 

 

The candidate must possess the following skills, experiences and qualities:

 
  • Solid experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, CloudFormation, Route53, ELB, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, etc.
  • Strong experience working with Linux, NGINX/Apache and PHP environments at enterprise scale
  • Background supporting large scale websites with CDN Services
  • Familiarity with APM and service telemetry environments
  • Experience with Chef, Puppet or Ansible (Chef Preferred) or Terraform
  • Ability to script using PHP, Python, Ruby and/or Java
  • Understanding of containerization and experience leveraging Docker
  • Solid knowledge of cloud security and best practices
  • Good working knowledge of Windows platforms
  • Solid background in network, storage and DNS services
  • Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills
  • Demonstrated ability to work well on collaborative, cross-functional teams. Solid interpersonal skills with ability to work effectively with people of all levels of information technology expertise with a wide range of constituencies and organizational relationships
  • Understanding of Project Management tools, techniques and methodologies including agile
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant work experience preferred

 

#li-ac1

 

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch's credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts for you and your Family Members prior to commencing employment. If you, or your Family Members, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, they must be sold before beginning work. In certain roles, employees and their Family Members may be limited to investments in diversified mutual funds only.

For more information about this policy, please visit the Code of Ethics and Conduct page .

 

  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Junior Front Office Developer
Summary

An exciting fintech company, with offices in New York, Tokyo and London, is looking for a talented front office developer to join its London technology team. Empowering developers in major financial firms to be as productive as possible, they deliver a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform. With open architecture, transparent source code, and automated infrastructure solutions, the platform provides clients with the tools to build reliable, scalable in-house functionality and fully integrated applications.

The successful candidate will be proactive, continually striving for improvement and have excellent communication skills on all levels. You will be working with clients - including asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies - to adapt and customize the core cloud-hosted trading risk management platform.

You will also be expected to build functionality for clients, program financial analytics and applications in Python and integrate with cloud computing services.

Requirements
  • Polyglot with exposure to many programming languages. Experience with Python is a must-have.
  • Javascript, web development frameworks (e.g. React) experience ideal.
  • 2+ years' commercial experience.
  • Exposure to SDLC tools and agile methodologies.
  • Experience of cloud infrastructure, Docker and Linux administration a bonus.
  • Financial knowledge would be preferable, or a keen interest to learn.

Benefits
  • Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, innovative environment
  • Competitive salary + generous benefits
  • Work with the latest technologies on complex problems


Contact
If you think you are a suitable candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:

Cajovi Daniel
cajovi.daniel@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/cajovi-oxfordknight

  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Junior Front Office Developer
Summary

An exciting fintech company, with offices in New York, Tokyo and London, is looking for a talented front office developer to join its London technology team. Empowering developers in major financial firms to be as productive as possible, they deliver a cloud-based, end-to-end development and production platform. With open architecture, transparent source code, and automated infrastructure solutions, the platform provides clients with the tools to build reliable, scalable in-house functionality and fully integrated applications.

The successful candidate will be proactive, continually striving for improvement and have excellent communication skills on all levels. You will be working with clients - including asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies - to adapt and customize the core cloud-hosted trading risk management platform.

You will also be expected to build functionality for clients, program financial analytics and applications in Python and integrate with cloud computing services.

Requirements
  • Polyglot with exposure to many programming languages. Experience with Python is a must-have.
  • Javascript, web development frameworks (e.g. React) experience ideal.
  • 2+ years' commercial experience.
  • Exposure to SDLC tools and agile methodologies.
  • Experience of cloud infrastructure, Docker and Linux administration a bonus.
  • Financial knowledge would be preferable, or a keen interest to learn.

Benefits
  • Great opportunity to be part of a collaborative, innovative environment
  • Competitive salary + generous benefits
  • Work with the latest technologies on complex problems


Contact
If you think you are a suitable candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:

Cajovi Daniel
cajovi.daniel@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/cajovi-oxfordknight

  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Consultant - Systems Engineer - Linux DevOps
Description
CME Group is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it, all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Joining our company gives you the opportunity to make a difference in global financial markets every day, whether you work on our industry-leading technology and risk management services, our benchmark products or in a corporate services area that helps us serve our customers better. We're small enough for you and your contributions to be known. But big enough for your ideas to make an impact. The pace is dynamic, the work is unlike any other firm in the business, and the possibilities are endless. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we're looking for more.

To learn more about what a career at CME Group can offer you, visit us at  www.wherefuturesaremade.com .

Description

Description:

We are ETPA (Enterprise Technology Production Assurance), an advanced and dedicated team staffed with a diverse skill set.  The ETPA Systems Engineer combines traditional systems admin skills along with advanced application support, automation, and troubleshooting skills to enable rapid resolution of critical issues with CME Group's electronic trading systems amongst many Clearing Applications.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for building and running large-scale, massively distributed, fault tolerant, and latency sensitive applications that run CME Group's business and provide our customers with extremely fast access to our markets.  This individual will work on systems that must achieve a unique blend of ultra-low latency performance, the capacity to seamlessly facilitate the busiest trading days during times of turmoil or surprises in the world economy, and rock-solid reliability and integrity, all while undergoing rapid release cycles.  It's a very critical and exciting role where every day is different, challenging, and rewarding.

Responsibilities:

  • Works closely with our Technical Operations and Business Operations teams on critical issues by evaluating the problem, proposing and implementing resolutions, and partnering with other teams (DBAs, Networking, Development, etc) as needed for the resolution.
  • Solves problems creatively and communicate effectively.
  • Deploys in-house and 3rd party applications with a keen focus on automation and hardening.
  • Identifies and resolves performance issues and bottlenecks within the specified SLAs.
  • Collaborates with our Global Information Security team to provide secure solutions.
  • Operates as an outstanding team player, works well with others, and possesses a positive attitude.
  • Ability to provide effective and timely solutions in a very fast-paced environment where multitasking and attention to detail is critical.
  • Self-motivated and great under pressure.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • A strong desire to develop skills and continue to grow.
  • Ability to be self-motivated, capable of managing time well, and works efficiently without close supervision in a very dynamic environment.

Requirements:
  • Bare metal Kubernetes on Docker administration
  • Istio and Envoy are a big plus
  • Linux scripting, and application troubleshooting
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities
  • Strong automation scripting skills (Powershell, Python, Bash, etc)
  • Solid understanding of Windows operating systems
  • Traditional networking, particularly the ability to troubleshoot issues that involve the network, interpret packet captures, and diagnose connectivity issues.  Multicast experience is a plus
  • Container and service mesh networking and troubleshooting
  • Configuration management and change management experience

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Minimum 3+ years of experience in technical support.
  • A Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline; or equivalent combination of education and relevant proven work experience that is required for the specific job title.
  • Technical skills supporting 3rd party applications including .Net/C#, Redis, Tibco FTL, Kafka, Docker, Jenkins, and Chef.
  • AWS or relative cloud experience.
  • Working experience in a Financial industry is a plus.


For EU Residents, the Candidate Privacy Policy can be found here.
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Consultant - Systems Engineer - Linux DevOps
Description
CME Group is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it, all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Joining our company gives you the opportunity to make a difference in global financial markets every day, whether you work on our industry-leading technology and risk management services, our benchmark products or in a corporate services area that helps us serve our customers better. We're small enough for you and your contributions to be known. But big enough for your ideas to make an impact. The pace is dynamic, the work is unlike any other firm in the business, and the possibilities are endless. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we're looking for more.

To learn more about what a career at CME Group can offer you, visit us at  www.wherefuturesaremade.com .

Description

Description:

We are ETPA (Enterprise Technology Production Assurance), an advanced and dedicated team staffed with a diverse skill set.  The ETPA Systems Engineer combines traditional systems admin skills along with advanced application support, automation, and troubleshooting skills to enable rapid resolution of critical issues with CME Group's electronic trading systems amongst many Clearing Applications.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for building and running large-scale, massively distributed, fault tolerant, and latency sensitive applications that run CME Group's business and provide our customers with extremely fast access to our markets.  This individual will work on systems that must achieve a unique blend of ultra-low latency performance, the capacity to seamlessly facilitate the busiest trading days during times of turmoil or surprises in the world economy, and rock-solid reliability and integrity, all while undergoing rapid release cycles.  It's a very critical and exciting role where every day is different, challenging, and rewarding.

Responsibilities:

  • Works closely with our Technical Operations and Business Operations teams on critical issues by evaluating the problem, proposing and implementing resolutions, and partnering with other teams (DBAs, Networking, Development, etc) as needed for the resolution.
  • Solves problems creatively and communicate effectively.
  • Deploys in-house and 3rd party applications with a keen focus on automation and hardening.
  • Identifies and resolves performance issues and bottlenecks within the specified SLAs.
  • Collaborates with our Global Information Security team to provide secure solutions.
  • Operates as an outstanding team player, works well with others, and possesses a positive attitude.
  • Ability to provide effective and timely solutions in a very fast-paced environment where multitasking and attention to detail is critical.
  • Self-motivated and great under pressure.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • A strong desire to develop skills and continue to grow.
  • Ability to be self-motivated, capable of managing time well, and works efficiently without close supervision in a very dynamic environment.

Requirements:
  • Bare metal Kubernetes on Docker administration
  • Istio and Envoy are a big plus
  • Linux scripting, and application troubleshooting
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities
  • Strong automation scripting skills (Powershell, Python, Bash, etc)
  • Solid understanding of Windows operating systems
  • Traditional networking, particularly the ability to troubleshoot issues that involve the network, interpret packet captures, and diagnose connectivity issues.  Multicast experience is a plus
  • Container and service mesh networking and troubleshooting
  • Configuration management and change management experience

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Minimum 3+ years of experience in technical support.
  • A Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline; or equivalent combination of education and relevant proven work experience that is required for the specific job title.
  • Technical skills supporting 3rd party applications including .Net/C#, Redis, Tibco FTL, Kafka, Docker, Jenkins, and Chef.
  • AWS or relative cloud experience.
  • Working experience in a Financial industry is a plus.


For EU Residents, the Candidate Privacy Policy can be found here.
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Contract
  • 10 Mar 2020
Data Analyst
Data Analyst - Financial Services - £450-600/day (Inside IR35)

Data Analyst - Financial Services - £450-600/day (Inside IR35)

We are partnered with a major Bank who are looking to recruit a Data Analyst to assist the regulatory inventory and change management function on a global programme.

Responsibilities;
  • Data profiling and standardisation
  • Assess impacts of data on the outcome of analysis
  • Build regulatory inventory across the globe
  • Communicate effectively to stakeholders across the bank

Requirements;
  • Advanced Excel and VBA
  • Advanced SQL
  • Python
  • FS/Banking background highly desirable

Please get in touch with me on 020 7092 0285 or kcouldridge@morganmckinley.com

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

BY APPLYING FOR THIS ROLE YOU ARE AGREEING TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE WHICH TOGETHER WITH OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT GOVERN YOUR USE OF MORGAN MCKINLEY SERVICES.

  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Contract
  • 10 Mar 2020
Data Analyst
Data Analyst - Financial Services - £450-600/day (Inside IR35)

Data Analyst - Financial Services - £450-600/day (Inside IR35)

We are partnered with a major Bank who are looking to recruit a Data Analyst to assist the regulatory inventory and change management function on a global programme.

Responsibilities;
  • Data profiling and standardisation
  • Assess impacts of data on the outcome of analysis
  • Build regulatory inventory across the globe
  • Communicate effectively to stakeholders across the bank

Requirements;
  • Advanced Excel and VBA
  • Advanced SQL
  • Python
  • FS/Banking background highly desirable

Please get in touch with me on 020 7092 0285 or kcouldridge@morganmckinley.com

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

BY APPLYING FOR THIS ROLE YOU ARE AGREEING TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE WHICH TOGETHER WITH OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT GOVERN YOUR USE OF MORGAN MCKINLEY SERVICES.

  • Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
See job description for details

Company Profile:
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 in 43 countries.
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.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

Team Profile:
Morgan Stanley?s Global Cybersecurity Fusion Center is charged with assessing, detecting, and responding to cyber threats, vulnerabilities, or incidents that threaten the Firm. Comprised of cyber threat intelligence, cyber analytics, and cyber event management teams, Fusion serves as the operational cornerstone of the Firm?s cyber defense strategy - enabling the Firm to rapidly align our defensive capabilities to adapt to changing adversary tactics.
The Fusion Cyber Analytics team is responsible for detecting cyber threats to the Firm working closely with infrastructure teams, security control owners, threat intelligence analysts, incident responders, cyber event managers and business unit partners.

Position Description:
As a member of Cyber Analytics, you will be responsible for analyzing data, developing threat visibility, establishing detective methodology and implementing continuous monitoring solutions that will feed the alerting and incident response process. Your partners will include engineering teams responsible for deploying the Firm's security controls and infrastructure, as well as other cyber security functions involved in security architecture and vulnerability management.
Besides analytics development, you will also be responsible for driving continuous improvements to the team's processes and technology stack. Processing over 30 billion events each day, our analytics sense-making layer is a modern real-time streaming data architecture comprising a mixture of commercial and open-source technologies, including Apache NiFi, Kafka, Spark, and Splunk. Knowledge of one or more of these technologies is strongly desired. Demonstrated ability and desire to rapidly learn new technologies is a must.
Other requirements include a strong interest in cybersecurity, passion for solving difficult problems, practical experience in various programming languages, propensity for teamwork and passion for continuous learning. Enterprise software development and data science experience are a plus. Ability to work in an agile, dynamic working environment is required to effectively respond to rapidly changing cyber threats .#LI-AS2


Qualifications:


Core Responsibilities:
1) Leading daily scrum calls with the squad in addition to architecting, designing and implementing solutions.
2) Interfacing with our users and stakeholders on a regular basis to flesh out new requirements and prioritize the squads work.
3) Utilizing technologies such as Splunk, Apache NiFi, Kafka, Spark and other technologies what may be required in an analytics implementation.
4) Working with other technology team in relation to technology integration and prioritization.
5) Providing mentorship and guidance to junior team members in the team.
6) Participating in the rapid development of user-driven prototypes to identify technical options and inform multiple architectural approaches
7) DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, and Build Automation to enable the rapid delivery of functionality, utilizing tools like Jenkins, and Git.

Skills Desired:
1) Passionate interest in data analytics and cyber security
2) Positive attitude and enthusiasm to learn new technologies and expand professional skills
3) Ability to collaborate with other developers and end users to craft end-to-end solutions
4) Excellent written and verbal communication skills
5) Well versed in data structures, caching, design patterns and enterprise application design.
6) Experience with big data platforms (for example Splunk, ELK, Apache Kafka/Spark/Storm) or with any relational databases (for example DB2, Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL) or NoSQL databases (for example MongoDB, CouchDB)
7) Experience with programming languages; for example Perl, Python, Scala, Java, C# or JavaScript.
8) Experience with build tools, unit testing, as well as version control systems like Git .#LI-AS2
  • Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
See job description for details

Company Profile:
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 in 43 countries.
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.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

Team Profile:
Morgan Stanley?s Global Cybersecurity Fusion Center is charged with assessing, detecting, and responding to cyber threats, vulnerabilities, or incidents that threaten the Firm. Comprised of cyber threat intelligence, cyber analytics, and cyber event management teams, Fusion serves as the operational cornerstone of the Firm?s cyber defense strategy - enabling the Firm to rapidly align our defensive capabilities to adapt to changing adversary tactics.
The Fusion Cyber Analytics team is responsible for detecting cyber threats to the Firm working closely with infrastructure teams, security control owners, threat intelligence analysts, incident responders, cyber event managers and business unit partners.

Position Description:
As a member of Cyber Analytics, you will be responsible for analyzing data, developing threat visibility, establishing detective methodology and implementing continuous monitoring solutions that will feed the alerting and incident response process. Your partners will include engineering teams responsible for deploying the Firm's security controls and infrastructure, as well as other cyber security functions involved in security architecture and vulnerability management.
Besides analytics development, you will also be responsible for driving continuous improvements to the team's processes and technology stack. Processing over 30 billion events each day, our analytics sense-making layer is a modern real-time streaming data architecture comprising a mixture of commercial and open-source technologies, including Apache NiFi, Kafka, Spark, and Splunk. Knowledge of one or more of these technologies is strongly desired. Demonstrated ability and desire to rapidly learn new technologies is a must.
Other requirements include a strong interest in cybersecurity, passion for solving difficult problems, practical experience in various programming languages, propensity for teamwork and passion for continuous learning. Enterprise software development and data science experience are a plus. Ability to work in an agile, dynamic working environment is required to effectively respond to rapidly changing cyber threats .#LI-AS2


Qualifications:


Core Responsibilities:
1) Leading daily scrum calls with the squad in addition to architecting, designing and implementing solutions.
2) Interfacing with our users and stakeholders on a regular basis to flesh out new requirements and prioritize the squads work.
3) Utilizing technologies such as Splunk, Apache NiFi, Kafka, Spark and other technologies what may be required in an analytics implementation.
4) Working with other technology team in relation to technology integration and prioritization.
5) Providing mentorship and guidance to junior team members in the team.
6) Participating in the rapid development of user-driven prototypes to identify technical options and inform multiple architectural approaches
7) DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, and Build Automation to enable the rapid delivery of functionality, utilizing tools like Jenkins, and Git.

Skills Desired:
1) Passionate interest in data analytics and cyber security
2) Positive attitude and enthusiasm to learn new technologies and expand professional skills
3) Ability to collaborate with other developers and end users to craft end-to-end solutions
4) Excellent written and verbal communication skills
5) Well versed in data structures, caching, design patterns and enterprise application design.
6) Experience with big data platforms (for example Splunk, ELK, Apache Kafka/Spark/Storm) or with any relational databases (for example DB2, Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL) or NoSQL databases (for example MongoDB, CouchDB)
7) Experience with programming languages; for example Perl, Python, Scala, Java, C# or JavaScript.
8) Experience with build tools, unit testing, as well as version control systems like Git .#LI-AS2