Principal Cloud Engineer (Network/Security)

T. Rowe Price Hong Kong; Owings Mills, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health and wellness benefits

Online therapy

Family care resources

Job summary

T. Rowe Price Hong Kong is seeking a senior cloud/site reliability engineer to design, build, and operate enterprise-scale cloud platforms. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and performance across AWS with knowledge of Azure and related tooling.

Experience leading technical decisions, mentoring engineers, and aligning cloud initiatives with enterprise strategy is essential. This role offers competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 10+ years designing and operating cloud infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on AWS and Azure experience.
• Expert in reliability engineering concepts: availability, resilience, observability, recovery, incident response.
• Ability to translate enterprise strategy into practical cloud platform standards and roadmaps.
• Proven design authority with ability to influence teams without direct authority.
• Mentoring engineers and leading technical decisions across org boundaries.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Cloud reliability

Incident response

Security/compliance

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Scripting

CI/CD

Site Reliability Engineering

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, you can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. You'll enjoy resources to support your career path, as well as compensation, benefits, and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you'll find a collaborative culture that respects and values differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity.* Deep understanding of how reliability, availability, recoverability, and platform performance affect business outcomes and client experience.* Ability to balance delivery speed with security, resilience, risk, cost, and operational sustainability.* Experience operating in regulated, risk-aware environments with strong security and compliance requirements.* Ability to translate enterprise strategy into practical cloud platform standards, roadmaps, and engineering priorities.* Makes decisions aligned with enterprise technology strategy while improving incident recovery, reducing repeat issues, and strengthening platform stability.* Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND 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* Experience in financial services - asset management, investment banking, or fintech.Placement within the range provided above is based on the individual's relevant experience and skills for the role. Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon company and individual performance.We value your goals and needs, at work and in life. As an associate, you'll be supported with resources, benefits, and work-life balance so you can thrive in ways that matter to you.Featured employee benefits to enrich your life:Competitive compensationHealth and wellness benefits, including online therapyFamily care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits