Principal Azure Cloud Engineer

Application Deadline:

05/30/2026

Address: 320 S Canal Street

Job Family Group: Technology

About the Role

As a Principal Azure Cloud Engineer, you will play a hands‑on senior engineering role within BMO’s Azure cloud ecosystem. This role is primarily focused on engineering cloud platforms and systems on Azure, with additional responsibility for designing and enabling production‑grade systems.

You will design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services that digital workloads.

This role blends deep cloud and platform engineering with applied system design. You will work in agile, cross‑functional pods with cloud engineering, data engineering, and security and risk partners to evolve BMO’s Azure platforms. As a senior engineer, you will influence technical direction, help define architecture standards, and mentor other engineers while remaining deeply hands‑on.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Engineering & Platform Delivery

Design, build, and operate Azure cloud infrastructure and shared platform services supporting digital workloads.

Implement and evolve Azure landing zones, subscriptions, networking, identity, and governance aligned with enterprise standards.

Build cloud‑native solutions using Azure PaaS services, containers, and managed platforms.

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.

Systems Enablement

Enable systems on Azure through secure, standardized platform capabilities.

Design and implement cloud‑based architectures for various applications, including API‑driven and event‑driven patterns.

Support system patterns such and orchestration of workflows.

Contribute to reference architectures and reusable components

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM, Terraform, or CDK‑based frameworks.

Create reusable, modular deployment patterns that balance self‑service with governance.

Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement across environments.

Enable repeatable deployment of AI‑ready environments and services.

Security, Governance & Risk

Apply security‑by‑design principles across identity, networking, encryption, secrets management, and auditability.

Implement secure service‑to‑service authentication using managed identities and least‑privilege access.

Ensure Azure cloud solutions comply with security, privacy, data governance, and regulatory requirements.

Support architecture reviews, risk assessments, and audits in partnership with security and risk teams.

Design platforms with observability, traceability, and operational controls enabled by default.

Required Technical Skills & Competencies

Core Azure Cloud Engineering (Must‑have)

Hands‑on experience engineering solutions on Microsoft Azure in large‑scale or regulated environments.

Strong understanding of Azure networking, identity, access management, and governance.

Experience designing for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Proven ability to troubleshoot and operate production Azure environments.

Infrastructure as Code & DevOps (Must‑have)

Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM, Terraform, or similar tools.

Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.

Familiarity with IAM models, role definitions, and least‑privilege access patterns.

Cloud‑Native Integration & APIs (Must‑have)

Experience with Azure API Management or similar API gateway solutions.

Understanding of secure service exposure, authentication, rate limiting, and API lifecycle management.

Experience designing service‑based and event‑driven architectures.

Reliability & Observability (Nice‑to‑Have)

Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards.

Familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, and resilience patterns.

Qualifications & Experience

10+ years of experience in Azure cloud engineering, platform engineering roles.

3+ years experience in a Principal Engineer role, driving initiatives and provide leadership to the team and CIO partner teams

Proven experience delivering and operating Azure‑based platforms or services in production.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering.

Salary:

$112,200.00 - $209,000.00

Pay Type: Salaried

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards