Principal Azure Cloud Platform Engineer
BMO Financial Group22 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$86k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Azure cloud infrastructure and shared platform services for digital workloads.
- Implement and maintain Azure landing zones, subscriptions, networking, identity, access management, and governance.
- Build reusable Azure PaaS, container, managed-service, deployment, and paved-road platform capabilities.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code, automation, environment provisioning, policy enforcement, and deployment frameworks.
- Build and operate infrastructure and application delivery pipelines using GitHub Actions, ARM, Terraform, or similar tools.
- Apply security-by-design principles across identity, networking, encryption, secrets management, auditability, privacy, data governance, and regulatory compliance.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, observability, traceability, and operational controls.
- Partner with engineering, data engineering, security, and risk teams on platform adoption, architecture reviews, risk assessments, audits, and operational readiness.
- Drive large enterprise projects and build horizontal cloud capabilities and shared services for internal development teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science or Engineering.
- 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering leadership, or infrastructure roles.
- Hands-on experience engineering and operating Microsoft Azure solutions in large-scale or regulated environments.
- Strong knowledge of Azure platform engineering, networking, identity, access management, governance, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using GitHub Actions, ARM, Terraform, or similar tools.
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and reusable deployment frameworks 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, including secure service exposure, rate limiting, and API lifecycle management.
- Experience delivering large-scale Azure platforms and foundational cloud platform capabilities.
- Demonstrated leadership in driving large projects and partnering with technology teams and leaders across the enterprise.
- Nice-to-have experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, operational dashboards, and SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, and resilience patterns.
Benefits
- Salaried position with a stated base salary range of $85,500.00-$185,000.00.
- Health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans.
- Training, coaching, manager support, and network-building opportunities.
- Application deadline is October 30, 2026; work location is listed as 33 Dundas Street West.
About BMO Financial Group
BMO Financial Group is a publicly traded North American bank offering personal and commercial banking, wealth management, and capital markets services to consumers, businesses, and institutions. Founded in 1817 and headquartered in Toronto, it operates in Canada and the United States, including BMO Bank N.A. in the U.S. The company is listed on the NYSE and TSX under the symbol BMO.