Cloud Engineer (Remote)

About The Company T. Rowe Price is a premier global asset management organization with over 85 years of experience in providing investment solutions. We specialize in a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities serving individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. Our firm is committed to an active, independent approach to investing, delivering dynamic perspectives and meaningful partnerships that empower our clients to feel confident about their financial futures. We believe in doing the right thing for our clients and associates, fostering a collaborative culture that respects and values differences. Our associates enjoy opportunities to make a real impact, supported by resources that promote career growth, competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and flexible work arrangements. About The Role The Principal Cloud Engineer (Storage) at T. Rowe Price plays a critical role within the Cloud Storage Platform Engineering team, responsible for delivering secure, scalable, resilient, and automated storage platforms across the enterprise. This senior individual contributor position leads the architecture, engineering standards, automation, and operational direction for cloud storage solutions. The role requires deep expertise in NetApp, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Nasuni, and AWS native storage services such as Amazon EFS, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and backup capabilities. The Principal Cloud Engineer serves as the technical design authority and escalation point, enabling key initiatives like CloudNext and data center exit strategies, while mentoring and upskilling the broader storage engineering team. This position balances strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, partnering closely with infrastructure, cloud engineering, operations, application teams, architecture, security, and service owners to drive platform reliability and innovation. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.Typically 10+ years of experience designing, engineering, and operating enterprise storage or cloud infrastructure at a senior level.Deep hands-on expertise with NetApp and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.Strong knowledge of Nasuni and AWS native storage services including Amazon EFS, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and AWS Backup.Expert understanding of storage architecture, file and block services, data protection, replication, backup and recovery, performance engineering, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.Experience designing storage solutions for highly available, resilient, secure, and large-scale enterprise workloads.Strong infrastructure automation skills using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, scripting, APIs, and Git-based workflows.Working knowledge of AWS networking, identity and access management, encryption, monitoring, logging, and security controls.Proven ability to lead complex storage migrations and resolve performance, availability, and integration issues.Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.Experience mentoring engineers and influencing teams without formal management authority.Preferred: Relevant AWS, NetApp, or storage certifications.Preferred: Experience in financial services such as asset management, investment banking, or fintech. Responsibilities Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of cloud storage platforms supporting CloudNext and data center exit objectives.Define enterprise storage patterns across NetApp, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Nasuni, Amazon EFS, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and backup services.Engineer secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient storage solutions for enterprise applications and data workloads.Establish and own technical standards for performance, capacity, availability, recoverability, data protection, lifecycle management, and cost efficiency.Design and implement automation for provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, monitoring, and operational support using infrastructure-as-code and Git workflows.Create reusable modules, reference architectures, guardrails, and self-service patterns to promote consistent adoption at scale.Provide technical leadership for workload discovery, storage assessment, migration planning, data movement, cutover, validation, and decommissioning activities.Collaborate with application and platform teams to select appropriate storage services based on workload requirements, performance, resilience, security, and cost considerations.Integrate monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity management, and performance analytics into cloud storage platforms.Serve as the escalation point for complex storage incidents and performance issues, leading root cause analysis and durable remediation efforts.Assess and manage dependencies across networking, identity and access, encryption, backup, operational tooling, and regulatory controls.Guide the transition from traditional on-premises storage to cloud storage platforms while mentoring and upskilling storage engineers.Influence roadmaps and investment decisions for cloud and on-premises storage technologies as platform requirements evolve.Participate actively in an Agile delivery model, contributing to epics and stories, tracking work, and supporting planned releases. Benefits Competitive compensation package with base salary and discretionary bonus eligibility.Generous retirement plan to support long-term financial security.Hybrid work schedule offering flexibility with up to three days per week remote work.Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including access to online therapy services.Paid time off for vacation, illness, medical appointments, and volunteering.Family care resources including fertility and adoption benefits.Supportive resources to promote career development and work-life balance. Equal Opportunity T. Rowe Price is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all associates and applicants without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, gender, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by applicable country, federal, state, or local laws. Our continued success depends on the fair and consistent treatment of all individuals and the diversity of thought, gender, and race within our workforce.