Senior Security Engineer

T. Rowe Price

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Owings Mills, MD
Salary
$121,000–$206,000 / yr
Posted
30 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $180k
This role $164k
$110k most similar roles pay here $228k

This role pays less than 56% of similar roles. Most pay $151,475–$208,975 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $164k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 26 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $121,500–$207,500 across 26 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Security Engineer

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will join the engineering team to design secure, scalable, and automated solutions while promoting secure development practices across the organization. You will be responsible for developing infrastructure automation, managing cloud governance, and creating security guardrails for new workloads. Your daily work involves building reusable Terraform modules, implementing policy-as-code using OPA or Trivy, and developing automation tools in Python, Go, or Java to streamline developer workflows. You will also manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines, perform AWS IAM reviews, and configure resource policies to ensure least privilege. The role focuses on solving complex technical challenges within a highly regulated environment by embedding automated security controls into cloud engineering and application workflows to reduce manual tasks and minimize risk while maintaining high-quality code standards for all internal systems.

What does a Security Engineer earn?

Median $185250 from 84 postings across 39 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop and implement security engineering solutions for infrastructure automation and cloud governance.
  • Design and maintain security guardrails using Terraform, including reusable modules and policy-as-code.
  • Conduct code reviews to provide feedback on secure coding practices and design quality.
  • Build automated tools in Java or Python to streamline developer workflows and reduce manual tasks.
  • Integrate automated security controls into cloud engineering and application team workflows.
  • Mentor engineers on Infrastructure as Code best practices, identity management, and least privilege principles.
  • Manage AWS IAM configurations, including roles, permission boundaries, and service control policies.
  • Develop GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate guardrail checks and deployment controls.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of progressive engineering and/or security experience.
  • Extensive experience with AWS, including developing guardrails and detective controls.
  • Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to author reusable modules and implement policy-as-code.
  • Experience automating AWS guardrails, identity bindings, and logging/monitoring controls for new accounts or teams.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS IAM, including roles, permission boundaries, SCPs, and RCPs.
  • Experience developing GitLab CI/CD pipelines and automating guardrail checks.
  • Solid software engineering skills in Python, Go, or Java to develop automation tooling.

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