Principal Cloud Engineer (Storage)
T. Rowe Price1 day ago
Washington, DC, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$159k - $339k/yr
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 workloads.
- Own standards for storage performance, capacity, availability, recoverability, data protection, lifecycle management, and cost efficiency.
- Design automation for provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, monitoring, and operational support using infrastructure-as-code and Git-based workflows.
- Create reusable modules, reference architectures, guardrails, and self-service patterns.
- Lead workload discovery, storage assessment, migration planning, data movement, cutover, validation, and decommissioning activities.
- Embed monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity management, and performance analytics into cloud storage platforms.
- Serve as the escalation point for complex storage incidents and performance issues and lead root-cause analysis and remediation.
- Partner with application and platform teams to select storage services based on workload requirements, resilience, security, and cost.
- Assess dependencies across networking, identity and access, encryption, backup, operational tooling, and regulatory controls.
- Mentor and upskill storage engineers and influence technology roadmaps and investment decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Typically 10+ years of experience designing, engineering, and operating enterprise storage or cloud infrastructure with senior-level impact.
- Deep hands-on expertise with NetApp and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, plus strong knowledge of Nasuni and AWS native storage services.
- Expertise in storage architecture, file and block services, data protection, replication, backup and recovery, performance engineering, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
- Experience designing secure, highly available, resilient, and large-scale enterprise storage solutions.
- Strong infrastructure automation experience with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, scripting, APIs, and Git-based delivery 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 challenges.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing teams without formal line management.
- Relevant AWS, NetApp, or storage certifications are preferred.
- Experience in financial services, asset management, investment banking, or fintech is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule with up to three days per week from home.
- Annual bonus eligibility.
- Generous retirement plan.
- 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.
About T. Rowe Price
T. Rowe Price is a global asset manager that designs and distributes mutual funds, ETFs, separate accounts, and retirement solutions for individuals, financial advisors, institutions, and plan sponsors. It earns management and advisory fees for actively managed equity, fixed income, and multi-asset strategies, and also provides subadvisory services and brokerage. Founded in 1937 and headquartered in Baltimore, it is a public company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker TROW.