Principal Cloud Engineer – Network/Security

T. Rowe Price

. Lead the design, architecture, and evolution of enterprise cloud platforms, including AWS Landing Zone .

Posted 10/2/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $175,000 - $299,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating enterprise cloud platforms, particularly with AWS services, while ensuring high availability, security, and operational resilience. Proficient in infrastructure automation and reliability engineering practices, with a strong focus on mentoring and leading technical teams.

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AWS Cloud ArchitectureInfrastructure AutomationReliability EngineeringCloud Solutions DesignMentoring Engineers

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Hard Skills

AWS ServicesTerraformCloudFormationAnsibleNetworkingContainer PlatformsServerless DeploymentsIncident ResponseObservabilityIdentity and Access Management

Soft Skills

Strong Communication SkillsLeadershipCollaborationProblem-SolvingMentoring

Tools & Technologies

AWS Landing ZoneElastic Load BalancingAmazon EC2Amazon S3Amazon RDSAWS LambdaAmazon API GatewayVPC PeeringAWS Direct ConnectTransit Gateway

Certifications & Qualifications

Cloud CertificationsSite Reliability Engineering Certifications

Industry Keywords

Financial ServicesAsset ManagementInvestment BankingFintech

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudEC2Terraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design, architecture, and evolution of enterprise cloud platforms, including AWS Landing Zone
Ensure cloud foundations are designed for high availability, fault tolerance, recoverability, security, and operational resilience
Design and implement cloud solutions using AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon RDS, Route 53, AWS Lambda, and Amazon API Gateway
Design and automate advanced AWS networking solutions, including virtual private clouds, Transit Gateway, VPC peering, AWS PrivateLink, and AWS Direct Connect
Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Git-based workflows
Own site reliability engineering outcomes across cloud platforms and drive adoption of reliability engineering practices
Standardize reusable modules, reference architectures, and platform patterns for consistent, reliable deployments at scale
Define and enforce reliability standards, availability targets, recovery expectations, resilience patterns, and operational readiness criteria
Embed instrumentation, monitoring, logging, alerting, and service health measures into platforms and services
Act as the escalation point for complex incidents, leading root-cause analysis and long-term remediation
Design and implement guardrails for secure, reliable, self-service cloud adoption
Enable application teams to own end-to-end services while meeting platform reliability and operational standards
Participate in an Agile delivery model, contributing to stories and epics, tracking work, and supporting sprint releases
Partner with Application Development, Development Services, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Security, and infrastructure teams
Mentor engineers and promote operational excellence, continuous improvement, and technology modernization

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree or the 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, with working knowledge of Microsoft Azure
Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure, container platforms, serverless deployments, operating systems, networking, and identity and access management
Expert knowledge of reliability engineering concepts, including availability, resilience, observability, recovery, incident response, and operational readiness
Strong experience with AWS Landing Zone or comparable enterprise cloud foundation capabilities
Advanced infrastructure automation experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, scripting, APIs, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, and secure development and operations practices
Proven ability to design, build, and operate enterprise-scale, highly reliable cloud platforms
Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, platform services, automation, and reliability layers
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to serve as a design authority and influence teams without formal line management
Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical decisions across organizational boundaries
Cloud or site reliability engineering certifications preferred
Experience in financial services — asset management, investment banking, or fintech — preferred
Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States

Benefits

Comp & perks

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