Remote Principal Azure Platform Engineer

BMO Harris Bank; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

BMO Harris Bank is seeking a Principal Azure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services. You will work in agile pods with cloud, data, and security teams to evolve Azure capabilities and reusable deployment patterns across the organization.

The role emphasizes DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, governance, and observability, with a focus on scaling workloads, defining guardrails, and enabling engineering teams to deploy securely and

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

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 requirements for scalability, resilience, performance, cost efficiency, and reuse.
• Apply DevOps and SRE practices, including CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness.

Skills

Azure engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Security by design

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

ARM

CDKTF

Job description

BMO Harris Bank is seeking a Principal Azure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services. You will work in agile pods with cloud, data, and security teams to evolve Azure capabilities and reusable deployment patterns across the organization.

The role emphasizes DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, governance, and observability, with a focus on scaling workloads, defining guardrails, and enabling engineering teams to deploy securely and