Lead Platform Automation Engineer

Troweprice; Owings Mills (MD); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

T. Rowe Price in Owings Mills, MD is seeking a Lead Platform Automation Engineer to design, build, and improve automation for enterprise platforms.

You will focus on developer enablement, automated provisioning, and infrastructure-as-code using AWS, Terraform, and modern DevOps practices. This role emphasizes on-site collaboration with platform and cloud teams, delivering self-service patterns, secure interfaces, and reliable lifecycle management for databases, integration, middleware, and

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reusable automation patterns for provisioning and managing enterprise platforms.
• Improve developer experience by creating self-service workflows, clear interfaces, templates, and onboarding paths.
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules, IaC patterns, and automated lifecycle management for AWS-based services.
• Build and extend CI/CD pipelines that support provisioning, configuration, testing, release, and ongoing changes.
• Automate platform lifecycle activities including provisioning, configuration, patching, scaling, backup integration, and decommissioning.
• Partner with platform SMEs to convert repeatable procedures into reliable automation capabilities.
• Implement automation using AWS-native services, scripting, APIs, and secure integration patterns.
• Embed security, resiliency, observability, and cost management into automation by default.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure patterns align with enterprise standards.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD

IaC

Automation

Scripting

Security

Observability

Tools

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

At T. Rowe Price, we identify and actively invest in opportunities to help people thrive in an evolving world. As a premier global asset management organization with more than 85 years of experience, we provide investment solutions and a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. We take an active, independent approach to investing, offering our dynamic perspective and meaningful partnership so our clients can feel more confident.

We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business . With a career at the firm, y ou can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. Y ou'll enjoy resources to support your career path, a s well as compensation , benefits , and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you'll find a collaborative culture that respect s and valu e s differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity .

Join us for the opportunity to g row and make a difference in ways that matter to you .

About the Role

Platform Engineering builds and supports reusable platform capabilities that improve developer experience, accelerate delivery, and enable consistent provisioning and lifecycle management of key enterprise platforms.

The Lead Platform Automation Engineer is an individual contributor role focused on improving how engineering teams provision, manage, and consume core technology platforms such as Databases, Integration, Middleware, Messaging, and related shared services.

This role has been created to strengthen developer enablement and automation across platform engineering by building self-service patterns, CI/CD-enabled workflows, and infrastructure-as-code capabilities that make platform adoption faster, safer, and more consistent.

Unlike traditional operational support roles, this position is centered on developer experience, automated provisioning, platform lifecycle management, reusable engineering patterns, and hands-on delivery using AWS technologies, Terraform, and modern DevOps/DevExperience/DevEnablement practices.

This role requires 2 days/week on-site at our Owings Mills, MD Campus location.

Role Summary

The Lead Platform Automation Engineer designs, builds, and continuously improves automation capabilities that enable application and platform teams to provision and manage enterprise platforms through consistent, secure, and reliable developer-facing workflows.

This role balances strong hands-on engineering with practical platform design, working closely with product owners, technology accountable leaders, platform teams, cloud engineering, security, and application engineering to deliver reusable capabilities that support the firm's modernization strategy.

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.