He has been called "the best documented governor of the province of Asia in the Imperial period" on account of the large number of surviving monuments erected in his honour.
It has been speculated that he was also legatus Augusti pro praetore of Pannonia Inferior sometime during the reign of Alexander Severus (222 – 235).
Egnatius Victor and his brother-in-law Valerian were probably important senatorial supporters of the Gordiani, and he reached the pinnacle of his career during the reign of Gordian III when, between 242 and 244 he became the Proconsular governor of Asia, which he held for three years.
[3] Finally, in 254, he was appointed Praefectus urbi of Rome by his brother-in-law Valerian who had become emperor the year before.
Egnatius Victor was probably the brother of Egnatia Mariniana, who was the wife of Valerian and mother of Gallienus.