Penetration Tester - Python Specialist_Associate_Risk & Resiliency Management

We’re seeking someone to join our team as an Penetration Tester with Python Specialist to join our team as a KBS Testing (Key Business Service) Testing in our global team to meet the growing focus globally on KBS (Key Business Service) application testing. This role is key to a wider testing program which helps reduce risk and improve overall resilience.

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The Cybersecurity organization's mission is to create an agile, adaptable organization with the skills and expertise needed to defend against increasingly sophisticated adversaries. This will be achieved by maintaining sound capabilities to identify and protect our assets, proactively assessing threats and vulnerabilities and detecting events, ensuring resiliency through our ability to respond to and recover from incidents and building awareness and increase vigilance while continually developing our cyber workforce.

Firm Resilience

Firm Resilience leads and coordinates initiatives to proactively prepare the Firm to be resilient against operational threats as well as identify and manage material operational risk.

Risk & Resiliency Management

This is Director position that Identifies, assesses, and mitigates risks to ensure operational continuity and resilience in the face of potential threats or disruptions that could impact the organization, plus management of ongoing incidents.

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.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What You’ll Do In The Role

• Contribute to the function through a range of operational activities and project tasks, developing an understanding of the business and operating environment.
• Design and implement Python scripts to automate cyber resilience testing scenarios, including API-based simulations and data extraction for reporting.
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to orchestrate and execute chaos testing scenarios (e.g., simulating database outages, webserver failures, or network disruptions).
• Contribute to enhancements that proactively identify resilience gaps across microservices, APIs, and infrastructure components.
• Participate in disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) exercises, including cutover simulations and recovery validation.
• Document scenario definitions, test results, and remediation plans. Contribute to overall program's documentation comprising run books, SOPs.
• Work as a squad team member and contribute to work in Kanban JIRA environment.
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• 2-4 years of hands-on experience in Python scripting - including use of decorators, generators, and debugging techniques
• Ability to engage with the broader team, communicate goals, tasks and deliverables in 1-1 and team meetings.
• Exposure to cyber testing methodologies such as SQL injection
• Experience with resilience testing tools and scripting for automation (e.g., Ansible, Python).
• Understanding of infrastructure components: identity management, backups, networks, data centres, and storage systems.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and cloud-native data structures (e.g., Snowflake, MongoAtlas).
• Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and documentation.
  
  

Preferred Attributes

• Mindset oriented towards cyber risk and resilience-ability to think like an attacker and identify failure points.
• Exposure to architecture-level concepts across distributed systems, databases, and network layers. Awareness of AI-driven automation and its application in resilience testing.
  
  

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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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.