Principal Cloud Engineer (Network/Security)

T. Rowe Price

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Owings Mills, MDWashington, DC
Salary
$159,000–$272,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $216k
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This role pays more than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $169,067–$213,881 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $191k for comparable roles.

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About T. Rowe Price

T. Rowe Price is an asset management firm focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services

T. Rowe Price currently has 36 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Cloud Engineer (Network/Security)

Principal Cloud Engineer (Network/Security) joins the Cloud Reliability team as a senior individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and operating enterprise cloud foundations. This role serves as a design authority and site reliability engineering leader, ensuring that platforms like AWS Landing Zone meet strict availability, security, and risk requirements. The engineer will develop infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible while managing advanced networking solutions including Transit Gateway, VPC peering, and AWS PrivateLink. Day-to-day tasks involve automating deployments, establishing observability standards, and leading incident response for complex platform challenges. The role requires expert knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, EKS, Lambda, and RDS, alongside experience with Microsoft Azure. This position addresses the challenge of providing secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure within a regulated, risk-aware environment to support end-to-end application delivery.

What does a Cloud Engineer earn?

Median $162000 from 41 postings across 12 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and evolve enterprise cloud platforms including AWS Landing Zone for high availability and security.
  • Implement automated infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Git-based workflows.
  • Build and maintain advanced AWS networking solutions such as Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, and Direct Connect.
  • Establish site reliability engineering standards for observability, monitoring, logging, and incident response.
  • Act as the primary escalation point for complex incidents and lead root-cause analysis.
  • Create reusable modules and reference architectures to ensure consistent deployments at scale.
  • Develop guardrails that enable application teams to manage services while meeting firm safety standards.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership on cloud infrastructure and reliability practices.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
  • 10+ years of experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure with senior-level impact.
  • Deep hands-on experience with AWS and working knowledge of Microsoft Azure.
  • Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure, container platforms, serverless deployments, networking, and identity management.
  • Expert knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including availability, resilience, observability, and incident response.
  • Strong experience with AWS Landing Zone or comparable enterprise cloud foundation capabilities.
  • Advanced infrastructure automation experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, scripting, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Cloud or site reliability engineering certifications (preferred); experience in financial services (preferred).

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