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Job description:

Position Description

Position Title: Senior Terraform Engineer IST Contract
Business Line: Business Unit Enablement
Reports to: Principal Technical Product Owner, VP, Modernization Enablement
FLSA Status: Contract
Date: 2025

Basic Purpose:

The Senior Terraform Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting foundational Terraform modules for Morgan Stanley AWS and other Cloud infrastructure. They work as part of the larger Cloud organization consisting of Development, Security, Networking, Operations, and SRE teams to build effective, secure, and scalable solutions.

This is a highly technical, outcome focused role managing Terraform modules and registry for over 50 AWS and related SaaS services aligned to Morgan Stanley security, observability, resiliency, and similar requirements. Focused on Morgan Stanley acquisition environments, the position targets alignment of AWS resource configuration to Firm standards, providing a scalable blueprint for adoption by Development and other teams working in the Cloud.

Primary Responsibilities:

Create and maintain Terraform registry and IaC modules aligned to Firm security requirements and developer requirements
Assist with Terraform module adoption and troubleshoot operational issues
Work with Cloud Security/Engineering staff to test and validate prevent/detect controls
Collaborate with Security, Development, and other stakeholders to build standardized, approved, architecture blueprints for Cloud applications designed for resiliency, performance, and cost optimization
Create and maintain Terraform module and blueprint documentation
Mentor junior team members on Terraform IaC and secure design principles

Job Requirements:
Bachelor s degree in Information Technology or equivalent experience
7+ years Terraform hands-on experience designing and building reusable modules and application patterns
Terraform Associate Cert (Authoring & Operations Professional preferred)
10+ years AWS technical experience with strong knowledge across a broad range of services including VPC, IAM, S3, EC2, ECS, Backup, Kinesis, and similar.
Strong knowledge of source control and CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions)
Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more programming languages (Python preferred)
Experience working with Linux/UNIX and Docker or other container technologies
Strong knowledge of Agile software development practices
Able to work as part of a high performing, collaborative team with limited supervision

• To validate analyses (eg. Root Cause Analysis ,Trend Analysis) and reports to facilitate performance in tasks to be presented to key business stakeholders
• To ensure positive customer feedback & satisfaction thorugh active participation in customer meetings to understand any issues faced
• To validate Change Order Implementation Plan & Human Error Compliance and participate in Capacity planning
• To perform value addition activities (such as mentoring administrators/team members, preparing SOPs, maintaining effective documentation simultaneously and Knowledge sharing.) In addition act as a liaison to the business segment, facilitating effective communication and presentation to key business stakeholders as & when required.
• To ensure on-time resolution & quality compliance of escalated tickets/incident as per the agreed SLA