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 41 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 dedicated 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.

Department Profile

The mission of the Cyber Data Risk and Resilience division is to ensure the Firm manages its global businesses and serves clients on a market-leading technology platform that is resilient, safe, efficient, smart, fast, and flexible.

The Security Response Team (SRT) is part of the Cyber Data Risk and Resilience division and manages the incident response capability to support day-to-day cross-enterprise event investigations and strategic input into security controls and countermeasures to proactively create better security for the Firm. The group's vision is to deliver programs that protect and enable the business, ensure secure delivery of services to clients, adjust to address the risks presented by an evolving threat landscape, and meet regulatory expectations.

Team Profile

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Security Analyst (SA) to join the Firm's Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT). The global CIRT is a 24/7 operation with members in key geographical locations performing incident response and remediation, campaign assessments, network and host-based forensics. SAs work core hours in their region with an on-call rotation for critical incidents.

What You will do in the role:

• 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.

What You will bring to the role:

Candidates should have a genuine interest in cyber security and a good understanding of the tactics, techniques, and procedures of attackers. This role requires a detail oriented critical thinker who can anticipate issues and solve problems. Candidates should be able to analyze large datasets to detect underlying patterns and drive to a root cause analysis.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years experiences (or equivalent) with Security Analysis and Incident Response (i.e., working in SOC/CIRT/CSIRT/CERT).
• Subject matter expert in two or more areas such as Windows, Unix, firewalls, intrusion detection, network- and host-based forensics.
• Understand the end-to-end workflow of a threat across multiple technologies.
• Think like an adversary.
• Ability to reduce large datasets to identify threats to the Firm.
• Sound understanding of TCP/IP and networking concepts, security alerts, and incidents.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills are required to communicate findings, recommendations, and status of investigations.
• Experience with investigating common types of attacks, network packet analysis, log analysis, and reviewing security events.
• Ability to build mitigations to defend against network-based threats.
• Knowledge of Windows processes and Active Directory.
• Able to work extended working hours during incidents.
• Experience with developing analytic and response workflow for security event.

Desired skills:

• 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.
• Reverse engineering malware to understand attack vector and purpose.
• 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.
• Security product assessments.

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.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Salary range for the position: $85,000 and $150,000 per year. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and X Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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).