Senior Cloud Engineer

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Job Summary

The Senior Cloud Engineer is a core member of the Cloud Adoption and Support team responsible for assisting in designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions across both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role combines deep hands‑on technical expertise with strong enablement capabilities, supporting internal development teams in adopting cloud services efficiently and consistently.

The successful candidate will develop multi‑cloud infrastructure patterns, build automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), optimize modern application hosting platforms, and ensure solutions comply with security, governance, and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Multi‑Cloud Architecture & Engineering

• Assist with Design, build, and maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions across Azure and AWS using compute, networking, storage, serverless, and PaaS services.
• Review and assist with architecting multi‑cloud solutions that meet enterprise requirements for scalability, security, governance, and cost efficiency.
• Review and maintain reusable cloud patterns, landing zone components, and reference architectures for both clouds.
• Support container-based workloads across AKS, EKS, ECS, Fargate, and platform services such as App Services and Lambda.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation

• Troubleshoot and maintain IaC using CDK, CDKTF and Terraform for Azure and AWS resources.
• Review and assist in developing reusable IaC modules, wrappers, and libraries to ensure consistency and compliance.
• Review and enhance automation pipelines for provisioning, configuration management, policy enforcement, and environmental consistency.

CI/CD & Modern Application Delivery

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS Code Pipeline) to automate container builds, testing, and deployments.
• Integrate security scanning, compliance checks, and artifact management into the release process.

Security, Identity & Compliance

• Review and maintain authentication and authorization models across Azure AD and AWS IAM using RBAC, managed identities, roles, and policies.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, and compliance teams to conduct design reviews and ensure solutions adhere to regulatory standards.
• Review cloud security best practices, and secure configuration baselines across both clouds.

Operations, Monitoring & Optimization

• Good understanding of end-to-end monitoring, logging, and alerting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, CloudWatch, or equivalent tools.
• Ensure strong observability through traces, metrics, logs, dashboards, and runbooks.
• Manage patching, upgrades, and lifecycle governance for container and cloud workloads.
• Optimize workloads across Azure and AWS for performance, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency (FinOps mindset).
• Ensure backups, operational readiness, and disaster recovery are in place across both cloud platforms.

Developer Experience & Cloud Enablement

• Partner with internal software engineering teams to guide them through cloud onboarding, best practices, and multi-cloud architectural decisions.
• Create seamless developer experiences by integrating identity, networking, CI/CD, secrets management, and platform services.
• Help teams adopt cloud-native patterns and modern application hosting across Azure and AWS.

Required Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with both Azure and AWS in production environments.
• Strong proficiency with IaC using CDK, Terraform and Bicep (Azure).
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (AKS, EKS, ECS, Fargate).
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash).
• Deep knowledge of cloud networking, identity, and security principles.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certifications (AZ‑104, AZ‑305, AZ‑400).
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, DevOps Engineer).
• Experience in large enterprise or highly regulated environments (finance, banking, insurance).
• Familiarity with FinOps, cloud governance frameworks, and policy‑as‑code tools.

Core Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and drive cloud services end‑to‑end.
• Effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across diverse engineering and business teams.
• Customer‑focused mindset with strong commitment to enabling high‑performing developer teams.
• Ability to mentor junior team members and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

About Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en.

BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

Note to Recruiters: BMO does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to BMO, directly or indirectly, will be considered BMO property. BMO will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. A recruiting agency must first have a valid, written and fully executed agency agreement contract for service to submit resumes.