Lead Platform Automation Engineer

T. Rowe Price•Owings Mills, MD

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

T. Rowe Price is hiring a Lead Platform Automation Engineer, an individual contributor role within Platform Engineering. The team builds and supports reusable platform capabilities that improve developer experience, accelerate delivery, and enable consistent provisioning and lifecycle management of enterprise platforms. This role strengthens developer enablement and automation across core technology platforms, including databases, integration, middleware, messaging, and related shared services. The engineer designs, builds, and continuously improves automation that lets application and platform teams provision and manage platforms through consistent, secure, and reliable developer-facing workflows. The role emphasizes self-service patterns, CI/CD-enabled workflows, infrastructure as code, automated provisioning, platform lifecycle management, and hands-on delivery using AWS technologies, Terraform, and modern DevOps and developer enablement practices. It collaborates with product owners, technology leaders, platform and cloud engineering teams, security, and application engineering to deliver reusable capabilities in support of the firm's modernization strategy. The position is hybrid and requires two days per week on-site at the Owings Mills, Maryland campus; the posting also states eligibility to work from home up to three days per week. The role is based in an environment where automation must meet security, compliance, auditability, and operational control requirements. Applicants in the United States must have work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship now or in the future. 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 or 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 automation languages, 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.
Strong understanding of how developer experience, automation, and self-service capabilities improve engineering productivity, platform adoption, and delivery consistency.
Ability to translate platform-team needs and application-team pain points into reusable automation patterns and practical engineering solutions.
Experience supporting regulated, risk-aware environments where automation must satisfy security, compliance, auditability, and operational control requirements.
Strong systems thinking, balancing standardization, governance, reliability, cost management, and developer velocity.
Ability to operate at a senior-engineer level, influence platform engineering practices, and deliver improvements across multiple technology domains.
U.S. employment authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.

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; desirable but not required.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain reusable automation patterns for provisioning and managing enterprise platforms, including databases, integration, middleware, messaging, and related shared services.
Improve developer experience through self-service workflows, clear platform interfaces, standardized templates, and documented onboarding paths.
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 ongoing 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 with enterprise standards and delivery needs.
Troubleshoot complex automation, pipeline, provisioning, cloud infrastructure, platform service, and developer workflow issues.
Contribute to Agile delivery by defining technical stories, estimating work, maintaining Jira updates, and delivering incremental improvements.
Create documentation such as developer guides, automation standards, module usage patterns, release notes, runbooks, and support handoff materials.
Mentor engineers in 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.
Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus based on company and individual performance.
Generous retirement plan.
Hybrid work schedule and flexible or remote work opportunities.
Health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and online therapy.
Paid time off for vacation, illness, medical appointments, and volunteering.
Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits.
Employee stock purchase plan with matching contributions.
Tuition assistance.
Wellness programs, including fitness reimbursement and an Employee Assistance Program.