Incident Response Cloud Engineer, Associate

Incident Response Cloud Engineer

This role is will provide secure onboarding of the Google Cloud Platform application to Morgan Stanley's infrastructure and enable security monitoring of the platform. The role requires advanced skills and prior cloud services experience, preferably with Google Cloud Platform. Along with development skills for analytic implementation and deployment to production environments.

Primary Responsibilities

• (Important) Holiday and weekend shifts are mandatory. Schedule to be adjusted during the week to accommodate this requirement.
• Monitor and analyze security alerts and incidents within the Google Cloud Platform environment, taking proactive measures to mitigate risks during and after onboarding.
• Investigate cyber security incidents and threats.
• Interact with stakeholders and leadership teams as part of the response and remediation efforts.
• Improve the detection, escalation, containment, and resolution of incidents.
• Enhance existing incident response methods, tools, and processes.
• Maintain knowledge of technologies and the threat landscape.
• During non-core business hours support emergency, critical, or large-scale incidents as required.
• Assist in developing and maintaining security documentation, including incident response procedures and runbooks.

Required Skills:

• Understand the end-to-end workflow of a threat across multiple technologies.
• Think like an adversary.
• Sound understanding of TCP/IP and networking concepts, security alerts, and incidents.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills are required to communicate findings and recommendations.
• Experience with investigating common types of attacks, network packet analysis, log analysis, and reviewing security events.
• Experience applying Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques in support of investigations.
• Knowledge of Windows processes and Active Directory.
• Able to work on extended working hours during incidents.

Desired skills:

• 1+ years experiences (or equivalent) with Security Analysis and Incident Response (i.e., working in SOC/CIRT/CSIRT/CERT).
• Highly experienced in one or more areas such as Windows, Unix, firewalls, intrusion detection, network- and host-based forensics.
• Scripting (Python, BASH, Perl, or PowerShell), coding, or other development experience.
• In-depth knowledge of security event management, network security monitoring, log collection, and correlation.
• Splunk usage or administration experience.
• Security Orchestration and Automated Response (SOAR) experience.
• Industry certifications: GCIH, GNFA, GREM, or other related certifications.
• Financial industry experience.
• Foundational Cloud Security knowledge.
• OWASP Top 10 Knowledge.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 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.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $65,000 and $135,000 per year for Associate at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).