Principal Azure Cloud Engineer

Application Deadline: 09/29/2026 Address: 320 S Canal Street Job Family Group: Technology About the Role 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