Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BMO U.S. is seeking a Principal Azure Cloud Engineer to play a hands-on engineering role within their Azure cloud ecosystem. The role involves designing, building, and operating secure Azure infrastructure and platform services, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance BMO’s Azure cloud services.
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 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- Experience with Azure API Management or similar API gateway solutions
- Understanding of secure service exposure, rate limiting, and API lifecycle management
- 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
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards
- Familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, and resilience patterns
Benefits
- Performance-based incentives
- Discretionary bonuses
- Other perks and rewards
- Health insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Accident and life insurance
- Retirement savings plans
- In-depth training and coaching
- Manager support and network-building opportunities
Company Overview
We’re a bank, but there’s more to it than that. We're a top ten bank in North America and have been serving our customers since 1817. It was founded in 1882, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.bmoharris.com/us.Company H1B Sponsorship
BMO U.S. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 11 in 2024, 41 in 2023, 22 in 2022, 14 in 2021, 21 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.