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 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. Postion Overview This position is a critical leadership position within CIRT leading efforts to North America CIRT 24/7 operations and utilizing data from CIRT investigation to improve protective controls. The leader is responsible for overseeing the 24/7 CIRT operations, finding opportunities for efficiencies, and utilizing data from CIRT investigation to drive and lead changes with Cyber Security Engineers. This role is essential to ensuring CIRT can become more efficient and is able to work with Security Engineers to ensure the Firm is better protected. Without a dedicated lead to focus on efficiencies CIRT will continue to struggle keeping up with alert volumes and will require additional staffing. Experience leading 24 7 Cyber Incident Response or Security Operations functions within a large, complex enterprise environment, including oversight of shift-based teams and on-call models. What You Will Bring To The Role 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity risk management Demonstrated ability to lead operational transformation, including driving efficiency improvements, reducing alert fatigue, and optimizing investigative workflows using data and metrics derived from incident response activities. Strong technical background in incident response, threat detection, and cyber investigations, with the credibility to partner effectively with Cyber Security Engineers and influence control improvements. Proven experience using investigation data, KPIs, and trend analysis to inform decision-making, prioritize engineering changes, and improve protective controls across the firm. Demonstrated leadership in cross functional collaboration, particularly with Security Engineering, Risk, and broader Cyber organizations, to translate operational findings into durable security enhancements. Strong people leadership skills, including experience mentoring managers and senior analysts, setting operational priorities, and maintaining performance in a high volume, high pressure environment. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate operational risks, efficiency gaps, and remediation strategies to senior leadership What You Can Expect From Morgan Stanley 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 t