Morgan Stanley
Performance Engineering Cloud Lead
$120K–$170K
New York, New York · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience in Performance Engineering.
About the job
Leads performance engineering strategy for GCP migration, assessing and certifying cloud architectures so applications meet performance, scalability, resiliency, capacity, and customer-experience objectives.
What you'll do
- Set GCP performance engineering standards, guardrails, capacity models, testing frameworks, and certification criteria.
- Lead performance assessments, benchmarks, proof-of-concepts, and bottleneck remediation across cloud workloads.
- Provide technical leadership and communicate performance risks and readiness to engineering, architecture, and senior technology stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native architecture.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes/GKE, cloud networking, cloud databases, containers, and observability platforms.
- Experience defining cloud migration or modernization performance strategies and conducting performance testing, modeling, benchmarking, and capacity planning.
- Hands-on experience with performance and observability technologies such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, or equivalent platforms.
Pay
$120,000 and $170,000 per year (base pay)
Tools
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes/GKE, LoadRunner, JMeter, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, AppDynamics
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