Senior EndPoint Security Engineer (Engineering)

Morgan Stanley ,
Glasgow, City of Glasgow

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Job Description

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. Glasgow Profile: Morgan Stanley's Glasgow office employs in excess of 1,500 staff across Operations, Technology, Legal and Compliance, Internal Audit, Fund Services and Finance. Due to our growing business, we have a demand for career minded people to join our teams. Our opportunities offer unrivalled scope for progression and training within a fast paced, meritocratic and constantly changing environment. Morgan Stanley pride themselves on maintaining a culture which champions diversity, an inclusive environment for all, recognition and an opportunity to give back to our communities through various local charity partnerships. The office is located centrally and enjoys the additional benefits of an onsite gym and restaurant. Department Profile: Enterprise Technology Services provides a reliable, secure and agile technical platform for Morgan Stanley's business applications and operations. ETS enables business operations and delivers collaboration and productivity tools to our internal and external clients. ETS provides production management, quality assurance, and end user services for Institutional Securities and Support Services and delivers first-line defences to manage the IT risks to the Firm, address the evolving cyber threat landscape, and meet regulatory expectations. ETS also works with Investment Banking to manage the Firm's strategic relationships with the technology community, including venture capitalists, established technology companies, and start-ups. Position Description: The Senior EndPoint Security Administrator required to work in the L3 Platform Security Operations team, providing highest level of security consultancy and operational support for EndPoint Security infrastructure components. The role is based around operational stability and development of a large global environment of Microsoft Windows servers, Microsoft Win7/Win10 Desktops/Laptops/Virtual Machines and Linux servers. The role will focus on the security products and tooling utilized to manage the platform. The role is suited to an experienced Windows Systems Administrator or Platform Engineer with a proven understanding in enterprise platform security. An additional key component of this role is project based, with numerous activities to expand and enhance the services provided within the environment. The EndPoint Security Operations group provides a stable, yet agile and dynamic infrastructure platform to support the business functional requirements whilst managing associated risks. The role concentrates on the provisioning of security tools and services to internal client groups. Tool development experience is essential to assist the global teams in developing and deploying technology solutions to automate tasks. Responsibilities: - Analysis and development of platform security initiatives - Provide consultancy services to other technology teams - Provide architecture assurance on security platform initiatives - Maintain security infrastructure, providing stability by following and using the tools, policies, processes and procedures available - Provide a secure environment, managing and mitigating risks - Provide reporting and metrics - Resolve Incidents impacting hosts or environment - Create, review, maintain and update documentation - Work with global colleagues to provide globally consistent processes and procedures and provide innovative ideas - Undertake problem ownership - Investigate & Troubleshoot root causes when escalated from - Escalate and liaise with additional internal/external groups when required, resulting in satisfactory resolution - Active participation within and amongst teams and colleagues, providing constructive feedback when necessary - Regularly re-evaluate processes and procedures and Instigate service improvement initiatives - Identify areas for automation and scripting wherever possible - Maximize the use of existing resources, skills and technologies for the greatest benefit - Responsible for the planning and controlled execution of releases into the managed environment - Input into Business Continuity Planning and Practices Required Skills - Capable of working in a global setup - Capable of writing documentation, training users in complex topics, m