Hybrid Lead Platform Automation Engineer

T. Rowe Price; Owings Mills (MD); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Competitive compensation

Annual bonus eligibility

Health and wellness benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

T. Rowe Price in Owings Mills, MD is expanding its Platform Engineering team. The Lead Platform Automation Engineer will design, build, and improve automation for enterprise platforms, with a focus on self-service workflows and IaC using Terraform and AWS.

You will work closely with platform and application engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable automation that enhances developer experience and accelerates delivery. The role is hybrid with on-site days in Owings Mills.

Qualifications

• Typically 7+ 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.

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 by creating self-service workflows, clear platform interfaces, standardized templates, and well-documented onboarding paths for engineering teams.
• 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 that support platform provisioning, configuration, testing, promotion, release, and ongoing operational changes.
• Automate platform lifecycle activities such as provisioning, configuration, patching, scaling, backup integration, policy enforcement, decommissioning, and technical debt remediation.
• Partner with platform SMEs to convert repeatable operational procedures into reliable, testable, and supportable automation capabilities.
• Implement automation using AWS-native services, scripting, APIs, configuration management practices, and secure integration patterns.
• Embed 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 ensure automation patterns align 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 platform automation improvements.
• Produce high-quality documentation, including 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 clearly to engineering teams, product owners, and technology leaders.

Skills

Automation engineering

Scripting languages

Terraform / IaC

AWS automation

Platform engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Developer experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Terraform Modules

Jira

CI/CD tooling

Job description

T. Rowe Price in Owings Mills, MD is expanding its Platform Engineering team. The Lead Platform Automation Engineer will design, build, and improve automation for enterprise platforms, with a focus on self-service workflows and IaC using Terraform and AWS.

You will work closely with platform and application engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable automation that enhances developer experience and accelerates delivery. The role is hybrid with on-site days in Owings Mills.