Azure Platform Engineer: Lead Scalable, Secure Cloud Foundations

BMO U.S.

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 136,000 - 184,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

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Retirement savings plans

Job summary

BMO Financial Group is seeking a Principal Azure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services. You will work in cross-functional pods with cloud engineering, data engineering, security, and risk partners to evolve Azure services and adoption.

The role emphasizes IaC, DevOps, and governance, with responsibilities for landing zones, CI/CD, observability, and cost efficiency, requiring 10+ years in cloud/platform engineering and a

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering).
  • 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering leadership, or infrastructure roles.
  • Proven experience delivering and operating Azure environments.
  • Experience designing, implementing and delivering large-scale Azure platforms.
  • Experience building foundational cloud platform capabilities, engineering enablement tooling, or shared services for internal development teams.
  • Experience driving large projects, with leadership across technology teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate Azure infrastructure and shared platform services.
  • 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 readiness.
  • Build and operationalize foundational platform services and tooling for Azure adoption.

Skills

Azure
Networking
Identity & IAM
Governance
DevOps
CI/CD
Monitoring & Logging
SRE practices
Terraform
Containerization

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions
Terraform
ARM Templates
CDKTF

Job description

BMO Financial Group is seeking a Principal Azure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services. You will work in cross-functional pods with cloud engineering, data engineering, security, and risk partners to evolve Azure services and adoption.

The role emphasizes IaC, DevOps, and governance, with responsibilities for landing zones, CI/CD, observability, and cost efficiency, requiring 10+ years in cloud/platform engineering and a

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