Principal Cloud Engineer Azure
BMO Financial Group2 months ago
Base Salary
$100k - $220k/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 capabilities.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code, automation, reusable deployment frameworks, and internal platform tooling.
- Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement across environments.
- Apply security-by-design principles covering identity, networking, encryption, secrets management, auditability, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
- Support architecture reviews, risk assessments, audits, monitoring, logging, alerting, operational dashboards, and operational readiness.
- Partner with engineering, data engineering, security, and risk teams to drive Azure adoption and enterprise-wide platform capabilities.
- Provide technical leadership while delivering large-scale Azure platforms and cross-functional engineering initiatives.
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, delivering, troubleshooting, and operating Microsoft Azure environments at scale or in 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 infrastructure and application delivery pipelines and reusable deployment frameworks.
- Experience building foundational cloud platform capabilities, engineering enablement tooling, or shared services for internal development teams.
- Experience with IAM models, role definitions, least-privilege access patterns, Azure API Management or similar API gateways, secure service exposure, rate limiting, and API lifecycle management.
- Preferred experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, operational dashboards, and SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, and resilience patterns.
- Demonstrated leadership in driving large projects and partnering with technology teams and leaders across the enterprise.
Benefits
- Salaried position with a virtual/home-based work arrangement in Illinois.
- Health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident insurance, life insurance, and retirement savings plans.
- Additional training, coaching, manager support, and network-building opportunities.
- Potential performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, and other perks and rewards.
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.