Principal Azure Cloud Engineer

Bank of Montreal; United States; 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

Bank of Montreal is seeking a Principal Azure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services. You will deliver reusable deployment patterns and foundational services, while enabling engineering teams to adopt operational excellence.

The role emphasizes hands‑on cloud engineering, DevOps practices, and cross‑functional collaboration with security, risk, data, and cloud teams in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• Hands‑on Azure experience in large‑scale or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Azure cloud 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, and reuse requirements.
• Apply DevOps and SRE practices: CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness.
• Build and operationalize foundational platform services and tooling for engineering teams.
• Partner with engineering teams to provide standardized Azure capabilities and patterns.

Skills

Azure cloud engineering

Infrastructure as Code

DevOps

CI/CD

Monitoring & Observability

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

ARM

CDKTF

Azure API Management

Job description

About the Role

Address: 320 S Canal Street

Job Family Group: Technology

As a Principal Azure Platform Engineer, you will play a hands‑on engineering role within BMO’s Azure cloud ecosystem. You will be responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services, including foundational DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code capabilities, that enable workloads at scale. This role blends deep technical execution with strong cross‑functional collaboration. You will work in agile, cross‑functional pods with cloud engineering, data engineering teams, and security and risk partners to evolve BMO’s Azure cloud services. You will help define and implement and delivery of and operationalize Azure platform capabilities, reusable deployment patterns, and foundational services across the Azure ecosystem and guide teams in adopting operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Engineering & Platform Delivery

• 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 requirements for 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 that enable engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate solutions on Azure.
• Partner with engineering teams to provide standardized Azure platform capabilities, deployment patterns, and paved‑road solutions for cloud adoption.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using GitHub Actions, Terraform, or CDKTF‑based frameworks.
• Create reusable, modular deployment patterns that balance self‑service with governance.
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement across environments.
• Build and operationalize DevOps and Infrastructure‑as‑Code platform capabilities to support the rapid growth of the Azure platform.
• Develop foundational automation and tooling used by engineering teams to provision environments and deploy solutions to Azure consistently and securely.

Security, Governance & Risk

• Apply security‑by‑design principles across identity, networking, encryption, secrets management, and auditability.
• Ensure Azure 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 through standardized platform guardrails and shared engineering tooling.

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 platforming, networking, identity, access management, and governance, including shared platform services and foundational cloud capabilities. 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 GitHub Actions, ARM, Terraform, or similar tools. Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery. Experience building reusable deployment frameworks, foundational automation, or internal platform tooling that enable engineering teams to deploy to Azure. Familiarity with IAM models, role definitions, and least‑privilege access patterns.

Cloud‑Native Integration & APIs

Experience with Azure API Management or similar API gateway solutions. Understanding of secure service exposure, rate limiting, and API lifecycle management.

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

• 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, where you have demonstrated leadership skills, partnering with technology teams and leaders, building horizontal capabilities across the enterprise.

Salary: $100,000.00 - $220,000.00 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 view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

About Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world. As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network‑building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset. To find out more visit us at http://jobs.bmo.com/us/en

BMO is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other legally protected characteristics. We also consider applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

BMO is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e‑mail to [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.