Principal Azure Cloud Engineer

** About the Role*
* As a Principal Azure Cloud Engineer, you will play a hands‑on senior engineering role within BMO's Azure cloud ecosystem. This role is primarily focused on engineering cloud platforms and systems on Azure, with additional responsibility for designing and enabling production‑grade systems.

You will design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services that digital workloads.

This role blends deep cloud and platform engineering with applied system design. You will work in agile, cross‑functional pods with cloud engineering, data engineering, and security and risk partners to evolve BMO's Azure platforms. As a senior engineer, you will influence technical direction, help define architecture standards, and mentor other engineers while remaining deeply hands‑on.

** Key Responsibilities*
* Cloud Engineering & Platform Delivery

+ Design, build, and operate Azure cloud infrastructure and shared platform services supporting digital workloads.

+ Implement and evolve Azure landing zones, subscriptions, networking, identity, and governance aligned with enterprise standards.

+ Build cloud‑native solutions using Azure PaaS services, containers, and managed platforms.

+ Ensure platforms meet requirements for scalability, resilience, performance, cost efficiency, and reuse.

+ Apply Dev Ops and SRE practices, including CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness.

Systems Enablement

+ Enable systems on Azure through secure, standardized platform capabilities.

+ Design and implement cloud‑based architectures for various applications, including API‑driven and event‑driven patterns.

+ Support system patterns such and orchestration of workflows.

+ Contribute to reference architectures and reusable components

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

+ Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM, Terraform, or CDK‑based frameworks.

+ Create reusable, modular deployment patterns that balance self‑service with governance.

+ Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement across environments.

+ Enable repeatable deployment of AI‑ready environments and services.

Security, Governance & Risk

+ Apply security‑by‑design principles across identity, networking, encryption, secrets management, and auditability.

+ Implement secure service‑to‑service authentication using managed identities and least‑privilege access.

+ Ensure Azure cloud 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.

** 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 networking, identity, access management, and governance.

+ Experience designing for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

+ Proven ability to troubleshoot and operate production Azure environments.

Infrastructure as Code & Dev Ops (Must‑have)

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Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM, Terraform, or similar tools.

+ Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.

+ Familiarity with IAM models, role definitions, and least‑privilege access patterns.

Cloud‑Native Integration & APIs (Must‑have)

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Experience with Azure API Management or similar API gateway solutions.

+ Understanding of secure service exposure, authentication, rate limiting, and API lifecycle management.

+ Experience designing service‑based and event‑driven architectures.

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*
* + 10+ years of experience in Azure cloud engineering, platform engineering roles.

+ 3+ years experience in a Principal Engineer role, driving initiatives and provide leadership to the…