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 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 looking for a Triage Analyst to join the firm's Cyber Incident Response Team Operations (CIRT Operations). The global CIRT Operations is a 24/7 operation with members in key geographical locations; providing a first point of contact for security related incidents within the Firm. Its members monitor the Firm's environment for abnormal behavior and potential security breaches. Triage Analysts review, triage, and investigate security alerts, and respond to or escalate security incidents. Triage Analysts provide 24/7 coverage via a follow-the-sun model. 

Primary Responsibilities

-        Monitor and triage security events.

-        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.

-        Assist during non-core business hours during an emergency, critical, or large-scale incidents.

Qualifications: 

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: 

-        Understand the totality of a threat across multiple technologies and think like an adversary.

-        Sound understanding of TCP/IP and networking concepts, security alerts, and incidents.

-        Excellent writing and presentation skills are required to communicate findings and recommendations.

-        Experience with investigating common types of attacks, network packet analysis, log analysis, and reviewing security events.

-        Experience applying Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques in support of investigations.

-        Knowledge on Windows processes and Active Directory.

-        Able to work on extended working hours during incidents. 

Desired skills:

-        1+ years experiences (or equivalent) with Security Analysis and Incident Response (i.e., working in SOC/CIRT/CSIRT/CERT).

-        Subject matter expert in one or multiple areas such as Windows, Unix, firewalls, intrusion detection, network- and host-based forensics.

-        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.

-        Experience in Splunk usage or administration.

-        Experience in Security Orchestration and Automated Response (SOAR) usage.

-        Industry certifications: GCIH, GNFA, GREM, or other related certifications.

-        Experience in the financial industry.

-        Understanding of Cloud Security.

-        Knowledge on OWASP Top 10.

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).

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $80,000 and $137,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.