Azure Platform Engineering Leader

BMO Harris Bank; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Life insurance

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

BMO Financial Group in Chicago seeks a Principal Azure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services, enabling workloads at scale within agile pods. You will implement landing zones, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and governance, partnering with cross-functional teams including security and risk to standardize patterns and guardrails.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, cloud platform capabilities, and driving operational excellence

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 10+ years in cloud or infrastructure roles.
• Experience delivering large Azure platforms.
• Experience building IaC and DevOps tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Azure infrastructure at scale.
• Implement landing zones, networking, identity, and governance.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities and tooling.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with security and risk teams.

Skills

Azure platform engineering

Cloud scalability

DevOps practices

SRE practices

Security by design

Observability

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

ARM templates

CDKTF

Job description

BMO Financial Group in Chicago seeks a Principal Azure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services, enabling workloads at scale within agile pods. You will implement landing zones, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and governance, partnering with cross-functional teams including security and risk to standardize patterns and guardrails.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, cloud platform capabilities, and driving operational excellence