About the Role

As a Principal Azure Platform Engineer , you will play a hands-on engineering role within Banks 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 alongside cloud engineering, data engineering, security, and risk teams to evolve BMO’s Azure cloud services.

You will help define, implement, deliver, and operationalize Azure platform capabilities, reusable deployment patterns, and foundational services across the Azure ecosystem while guiding teams in adopting operational excellence.

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, container-based services, and managed services as reusable platform capabilities.
- Ensure platforms meet requirements for scalability, resilience, performance, cost efficiency, and reusability.
- Apply DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (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 solutions using GitHub Actions, Terraform, CDKTF, or similar frameworks.
- Create reusable, modular deployment patterns that balance self-service capabilities with governance requirements.
- Automate environment provisioning,



configuration management, and policy enforcement across environments.
- Build and operationalize DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code platform capabilities that support the growth of the Azure ecosystem.
- 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 within large-scale or highly regulated environments.
- Strong understanding of Azure platform architecture, networking, identity, access management, governance, and shared platform services.
- Experience designing solutions for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot, support, and operate production Azure environments.

Infrastructure as Code & DevOps (Must-Have)

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using GitHub Actions, ARM, Terraform, Bicep, CDKTF, or similar technologies.




- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines supporting infrastructure and application delivery.
- Experience building reusable deployment frameworks, automation solutions, or internal platform tooling that enable engineering teams to deploy efficiently on Azure.
- Strong understanding of IAM models, RBAC, role definitions, and least-privilege access principles.

Cloud-Native Integration & APIs

- Experience with Azure API Management (APIM) or similar API gateway platforms.
- Understanding of secure service exposure, API lifecycle management, authentication, authorization, and rate-limiting strategies.

Reliability & Observability (Nice-to-Have)

- Experience implementing enterprise monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and resilience patterns.

Qualifications & Experience

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related technology roles.
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating enterprise Azure environments.
- Experience building and scaling large Azure cloud platforms within complex organizations.
- Experience developing foundational cloud platform capabilities, engineering enablement tooling, and shared platform services used by internal development teams.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale initiatives and partnering with engineering teams and technology leaders to deliver enterprise-wide platform capabilities.
- Solid leadership and collaboration skills with experience driving adoption of cloud standards, automation, and operational excellence across multiple teams.

Pay: 160,000 - 200,000 Vacancy: New Vacancy (New Role)

We may use artificial intelligence tools to assist with the screening, assessment, or selection of potential applicants for this position.

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