VP – Senior DevOps Engineer (GitHub SME)

Job description

Your Team Responsibilities The DevOps Platform Engineering team is responsible for building, operating, and evolving the engineering platforms, developer workflows, and self-service capabilities that enable engineering teams across MSCI to deliver software securely, reliably, and at scale. As part of the MSCI Core DevOps Engineering team, you will help define and evolve the future of software delivery and developer enablement across the organization. This includes ownership of CI/CD platforms, engineering workflows, cloud-native platforms, internal developer tooling, and self-service capabilities built on technologies such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, and Backstage. The team defines and maintains engineering standards, golden paths, reusable workflows, platform abstractions, and governance models that product and engineering teams adopt to accelerate delivery while maintaining consistency, security, compliance, and operational excellence. This team operates as a software engineering organization focused on platform capabilities and developer experience - building internal products, APIs, automation, and integrations that shape how engineering teams build, deploy, operate, and support software across MSCI. Your Key Responsibilities • Architect and implement reusable CI/CD frameworks, GitHub Actions workflows, templates, and platform abstractions that standardize software delivery across the organization, packaged as golden paths that stay flexible for diverse engineering use cases. • Drive enterprise DevOps and SDLC standardization initiatives and engineering best practices. • Design and build internal platform capabilities, APIs, automation services, and integrations across GitHub, Azure DevOps, Backstage, cloud services, and internal systems. • Partner closely with Security, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Risk, and Application Engineering teams to embed governance, compliance, and operational controls directly into engineering workflows and platform capabilities. • Contribute to the long-term evolution of MSCI's internal engineering platform strategy, developer experience initiatives, and platform modernization roadmap. • Support and evolve production-grade engineering platforms through SRE practices such as monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning, keeping them reliable and resilient at scale. • Guide engineering teams on platform adoption, CI/CD modernization, developer workflows, and engineering best practices. Your skills and experience that will help you excel Required • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Developer Platform Engineering, or related software engineering roles. • Strong software engineering mindset with hands-on experience building developer platform capabilities such as automation, APIs, internal tooling, and reusable workflows, including work on an internal developer platform or portal (Backstage or equivalent). • Deep expertise with SCM tools and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub (preferred), Azure DevOps, and/or GitLab, including repositories, CI/CD pipelines, reusable workflows/templates, permissions, and platform integrations. • Experience designing reusable CI/CD frameworks and standardized engineering workflows, and driving platform standardization and enablement across multiple teams. • Strong understanding of SDLC architecture, software delivery workflows, source control governance, branching strategies, release engineering, and developer enablement practices. • Strong programming and scripting experience in one or more languages such as Go, Java, or TypeScript. • Proven experience building and consuming REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven integrations. • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native application delivery patterns. • Experience embedding governance, compliance, and security controls into engineering workflows, partnering with Security and Risk teams (e.g., DevSecOps, policy-as-code, governance automation). • Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of partnering across security, cloud, infrastructure, and engineering teams and mentoring engineers on platform adoption and best practices. • Strong operational mindset with experience supporting production-grade engineering platforms and developer tooling. Nice to Have • Hands-on experience with Backstage specifically. • Experience building self-service engineering workflows and developer enablement platforms. • Experience with platform observability, engineering metrics, and developer productivity initiatives. • Experience with GitOps frameworks. • Familiarity with frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript for platform UI/tooling development. • Experience working within large-scale enterprise platform modernization or engineering transformation initiatives. • Agentic SDLC experience and AI-native development • Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms in Azure and/or GCP. About MSCI What we offer you • Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing. • Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces. • A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results. • A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients. • Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, AI Learning Center , LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development. • Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded