Lead Platform Automation Engineer

T. Rowe Price • Owings Mills, MD

7d • $122,000 - $261,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Platform Automation Engineer is an individual contributor role within Platform Engineering, focused on improving how engineering teams provision, manage, and consume core enterprise platforms, including databases, integration, middleware, messaging, and related shared services. The role strengthens developer enablement and automation by building self-service patterns, CI/CD-enabled workflows, and infrastructure-as-code capabilities that make platform adoption faster, safer, and more consistent.

The engineer designs, builds, and continuously improves secure, reliable, developer-facing workflows for provisioning and managing enterprise platforms. The position combines hands-on engineering with practical platform design and collaboration with product owners, technology accountable leaders, platform teams, cloud engineering, security, application engineering, and enterprise architecture. It emphasizes developer experience, automated provisioning, platform lifecycle management, reusable engineering patterns, and delivery using AWS, Terraform, and modern DevOps and developer enablement practices.

The role requires working on site two days per week at the Owings Mills, Maryland campus and is eligible for hybrid work, with up to three days per week from home. The position offers location-dependent base salary ranges: $122,000–$209,000 in Maryland, Colorado, Washington, and for remote workers; $135,000–$230,000 in Washington, D.C.; and $153,000–$261,000 in New York and California. Employees may also be eligible for a discretionary bonus based on company and individual performance. FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported.

Requirements

• Typically 7 or more years of experience designing, building, automating, or operating enterprise technology platforms.
• Experience building self-service developer workflows, reusable modules, templates, platform APIs, or internal developer platform capabilities.
• Extensive hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms and practices, including pipeline design, automated testing, controlled promotion, release automation, and secure deployment patterns.
• Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices for provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, and lifecycle management.
• Broad experience automating AWS-based infrastructure and platform services using AWS-native capabilities, APIs, scripting, and integration patterns.
• Working knowledge of multiple enterprise platform domains, such as databases, integration platforms, middleware, messaging, eventing, observability, and shared runtime services.
• Strong scripting or programming skills in one or more languages commonly used for automation, such as Python, Groovy, Java, Go, or TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and platform security fundamentals.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• US employment authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.
• Ability to work on site two days per week at the Owings Mills, Maryland campus.
• Experience supporting regulated, risk-aware environments where automation must meet security, compliance, auditability, and operational control requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Agile delivery practices and tools such as Jira, including backlog refinement, story delivery, and iterative improvement of engineering capabilities.
• AWS, Terraform, DevOps, or platform engineering certifications.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reusable automation patterns for provisioning and managing enterprise platforms, including databases, integration, middleware, messaging, and related shared services.
• Create self-service workflows, clear platform interfaces, standardized templates, and documented onboarding paths to improve developer experience.
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules, infrastructure-as-code patterns, and automated lifecycle management capabilities for AWS-based platform services.
• Build and extend CI/CD pipelines for platform provisioning, configuration, testing, promotion, release, and operational changes.
• Automate platform lifecycle activities, including provisioning, configuration, patching, scaling, backup integration, policy enforcement, decommissioning, and technical debt remediation.
• Partner with platform subject matter experts to turn repeatable operational procedures into reliable, testable, and supportable automation.
• Implement automation using AWS-native services, scripting, APIs, configuration management practices, and secure integration patterns.
• Build security, resiliency, observability, compliance, tagging, cost management, and operational standards into automation by default.
• Collaborate with Application Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Security, and Enterprise Architecture to align automation patterns with enterprise standards and delivery needs.
• Troubleshoot complex automation, pipeline, and provisioning issues across cloud infrastructure, platform services, and developer-facing workflows.
• Contribute to Agile delivery by defining technical stories, estimating work, maintaining Jira updates, and delivering incremental improvements.
• Produce developer guides, automation standards, module usage patterns, release notes, runbooks, and support handoff materials.
• Mentor engineers on automation practices, infrastructure as code, CI/CD usage, and platform consumption patterns.
• Communicate technical designs and delivery progress to engineering teams, product owners, and technology leaders.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Annual bonus eligibility
• A generous retirement plan
• Hybrid work schedule
• Health and wellness benefits, including online therapy
• Paid time off for vacation, illness, medical appointments, and volunteering days
• Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior