
Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer
BMO U.S.
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $81,400 - $151,800 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Play a hands-on engineering role within BMO’s Azure cloud ecosystem
- 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 DevOps and SRE practices, including CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness
- 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
- 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
- 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
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering roles
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards
- Familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, and resilience patterns
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Accident and life insurance
- Retirement savings plans
- Performance-based incentives
- Discretionary bonuses
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Hard Skills & Tools
Azure cloud infrastructureAzure PaaS servicesInfrastructure as CodeBicepARMTerraformCI/CDAPI-driven architectureevent-driven architecturemonitoring and alerting
Soft Skills
troubleshootingoperational readinessscalabilityreliabilityperformancecost efficiencycollaborationrisk assessmentaudit readinesssecurity-by-design
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineering