Principal Azure Cloud Engineer
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Principal Azure Cloud Engineer building secure, scalable Azure infrastructure for BMO Financial Group. Delivering platform services, Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, governance, and operational tooling.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate Azure cloud infrastructure and shared platform services supporting digital workloads
- Implement and maintain Azure landing zones, subscriptions, networking, identity, and governance
- Build Azure PaaS, containers, and managed services as reusable platform capabilities
- Ensure platforms meet requirements for scalability, resilience, performance, cost efficiency, and reuse
- Apply DevOps and SRE practices, including CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness
- Build and operationalize foundational platform services and tooling for engineering teams
- Provide standardized Azure platform capabilities, deployment patterns, and paved-road solutions
- Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using GitHub Actions, Terraform, or CDKTF-based frameworks
- Create reusable, modular deployment patterns balancing self-service with governance
- Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement
- Develop foundational automation and tooling for consistent, secure Azure deployments
- Apply security-by-design across identity, networking, encryption, secrets management, and auditability
- Ensure Azure solutions comply with security, privacy, data governance, and regulatory requirements
- Support architecture reviews, risk assessments, and audits with security and risk teams
- Enable observability, traceability, and operational controls through platform guardrails and shared tooling
- Collaborate in agile, cross-functional pods with cloud engineering, data engineering, security, and risk partners
- Drive large projects and build horizontal capabilities across the enterprise
Requirements:
- Hands-on experience engineering solutions on Microsoft Azure in large-scale or regulated environments
- Strong understanding of Azure platforming, networking, identity, access management, and governance
- Experience designing for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and operate production Azure environments
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using GitHub Actions, ARM, Terraform, or similar tools
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery
- Experience building reusable deployment frameworks, foundational automation, or internal platform tooling
- Familiarity with IAM models, role definitions, and least-privilege access patterns
- Experience with Azure API Management or similar API gateway solutions
- Understanding of secure service exposure, rate limiting, and API lifecycle management
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering)
- 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering leadership, or infrastructure roles
- Proven experience delivering and operating Azure environments
- Experience designing, implementing and delivering large scale Azure platforms
- Experience building foundational cloud platform capabilities, engineering enablement tooling, or shared services for internal development teams
- Experience driving large projects and partnering with technology teams and leaders
- Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation requirements apply
Benefits:
- Performance-based incentives
- Discretionary bonuses
- Health insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Accident insurance
- Life insurance
- Retirement savings plans
- In-depth training and coaching
- Manager support
- Network-building opportunities
- Tools and resources for professional growth
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