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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 Lead Software Production Management & Reliability Engineering] position at Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for overseeing the production environment, ensuring the operational reliability of deployed software, and implementing strategies to optimize performance and minimize downtime.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

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We are seeking an experienced Production Support Manager to join our Global Operations Reliability and Production Engineering team in South Jordan, Utah. The successful candidate will represent and manage critical incidents across a diverse portfolio of over 1,000 applications, ensuring stability, performance, and regulatory compliance for internal and external clients. This role requires both technical and business acumen, exceptional communication skills, and flexibility to operate in a dynamic, high-pressure environment, including rotational on-call and weekend coverage.

The Production Support Manager will provide strategic leadership for complex distributed and cloud platforms, champion incident and problem management, drive automation and reliability initiatives, and build strong relationships with senior stakeholders. The ideal candidate will be a proactive, hands-on leader who excels at mastering innovative technologies and processes, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and influencing technology and business decisions across the firm.

Provide strategic leadership and oversight for complex distributed and cloud platforms, ensuring operational excellence and regulatory compliance.

Lead and manage critical incidents, ensuring timely resolution and effective communication with executive management and business stakeholders.

Troubleshoot and resolve issues across hardware, software, application, network, and cloud stacks.

Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders, downstream consumers, IT partners, and development teams globally.

Mentor and manage a high-performing production support team, promoting continuous improvement, learning, and resilience.

Drive automation, toil reduction, and enhancements in observability, monitoring, and reliability across platforms.

Own and evolve documentation, knowledge sharing, and best practices for global teams.

Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to resolve support issues and implement reliability solutions.

Represent production support in executive forums, influencing technology and business decisions.

Operate in a 'follow-the-sun' support model, with rotational on-call and weekend coverage.

Develop and implement programs to establish and enhance reliability and production management practices in the department.

Function as a buffer between support and development teams, reducing escalations and resolving issues within production management.

Support end users and business functions in day-to-day operations.

Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Minimum 8+ years of hands-on experience in Production Support, Production Management, or a similar technical leadership role.

Proven people management and team leadership experience.

Experience troubleshooting large-scale distributed applications and managing critical incidents.

Hands-on experience supporting applications deployed on cloud platforms, particularly Azure.

Expertise in analyzing, debugging, and troubleshooting complex applications, infrastructure, and database issues.

Excellent and confident communicator, able to manage high-pressure environments and executive-level communication.

Flexibility in working hours, including rotational on-call and weekend coverage.

Experience supporting financial industry systems is highly valued.

Knowledge of ITIL, SDLC, and Agile development practices.

Experience with cloud/distributed computing technologies and certifications is a plus.

Familiarity with modern observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, AppInsights, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible).

Experience using and configuring DevOps tooling (e.g., Terraform), and in instrumenting application endpoints for logging, metrics, and events.

Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing skills.

Experience in implementing reliability engineering and production management program

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 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.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.