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Director, Lead Cybersecurity Ops

Morgan Stanley
Baltimore, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 12/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/6/2026
Morgan Stanley Services Group, Inc. seeks a Director, Lead Cybersecurity Ops in Baltimore, MD

Analyze and Respond to security alerts from the Security Incident Event Management (SIEM) system. Conduct in-depth root cause analysis and collaborate with security engineering teams to prevent and mitigate cybersecurity incidents. Manage the queue of security events for the team and assist with a priority based assignments and trend analysis of events. Provide CIRT shift and on-call coverage for the North America region. Research cyber threat actor tactics and techniques. Create and onboard detection rules based on tooling and logging capabilities to counteract threat actors. Create playbooks and conduct continuous review of these detections for tuning and false positive reduction. Train and mentor fellow team members. Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.

Salary

Salary range for the position: $140,000 - $150,000 /Yr. 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 20 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.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and five (5) years of experience in the position offered or five (5) years as a Senior Manager, Manager, Information Security Engineer or a related technical occupation. Requires five (5) years of experience with: Cyber Incident Response; Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR); Network Security Monitoring; Network Traffic Analysis; Threat Hunting, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR); Malware Analysis; Technical Writing; Incident Reporting; Vulnerability management; Open Source Intelligence (OSINT); Computer Forensics; Network Forensics; Public Cloud Security including: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Platform; and Technologies and tooling including: Splunk, Kubernetes, Python, AWS GuardDuty, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Defender XDR, Crowdstrike, Tanium, Sysmon, and Axiom.

Qualified Applicants: To apply, visit us at https://morganstanley.eightfold.ai/careers?source=mscom and enter JR015031 in the search field. No calls please. EOE

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.

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).

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