Principal Azure Platform Engineer: Scale & Automation

BMO; Toronto; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

At BMO, we are seeking a Principal Azure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and foundational services, enabling workloads at scale.

You will collaborate with cloud, data, security teams in agile pods, delivering reusable deployment patterns, guardrails, and governance to drive cloud adoption and operational excellence across the Azure ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Azure experience in large-scale or regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of Azure platforming, networking, IAM, and governance.
• Experience designing for scalability, reliability, cost efficiency.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications.
• Familiarity with IAM models and least-privilege access.

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 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 Azure deployments.
• Partner with engineering teams to provide standardized Azure platform capabilities and patterns.

Skills

Azure engineering

DevOps practices

SRE practices

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

ARM templates

CDKTF

APIM/API Management

Job description

At BMO, we are seeking a Principal Azure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and foundational services, enabling workloads at scale.

You will collaborate with cloud, data, security teams in agile pods, delivering reusable deployment patterns, guardrails, and governance to drive cloud adoption and operational excellence across the Azure ecosystem.