Principal Azure Cloud Platform Engineer
BMO Financial Group2 months 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.
- Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code and automate environment provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement.
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines and foundational DevOps, automation, and internal platform tooling.
- Apply security-by-design principles covering identity, networking, encryption, secrets management, auditability, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, traceability, operational controls, and resilience practices.
- Partner with engineering, data engineering, security, risk, and technology leadership teams on architecture reviews, risk assessments, audits, and enterprise platform adoption.
- Drive large projects and provide technical leadership for horizontal capabilities across the enterprise.
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 for infrastructure and application delivery.
- Experience creating reusable deployment frameworks, foundational automation, internal platform tooling, or shared services for development teams.
- 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.
- Preferred experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, operational dashboards, SRE concepts, SLIs, SLOs, and resilience patterns.
- Demonstrated leadership in delivering large-scale Azure platforms and partnering with technology teams and leaders.
Benefits
- Health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans.
- Training, coaching, manager support, and network-building opportunities.
- Application deadline: October 31, 2026.
- Work location listed as 33 Dundas Street West; no remote or hybrid arrangement is stated.
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.