Senior Cloud Engineer

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Job Summary

The Senior Cloud Engineer is a key contributor within BMO’s Cloud Adoption and Support teams, responsible for assisting in designing, building, and enabling secure and scalable cloud solutions—primarily in Microsoft Azure, with additional multi‑cloud expertise in AWS. This role blends deep hands‑on engineering with cloud enablement, helping internal development teams adopt cloud services efficiently and consistently.

The successful candidate will support enterprise cloud adoption by engineering cloud‑native solutions, building Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and applying modern application hosting patterns across Azure and AWS environments.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Engineering

• Assist with design, build, and enhance cloud infrastructure solutions with a primary focus on Azure, while supporting AWS workloads where applicable.
• Assist with implementing cloud-native architectures across Azure and AWS using compute, serverless, PaaS, storage, networking, and identity services.
• Assist with developing reusable cloud components, templates, and reference patterns to streamline multi-cloud adoption.
• Assist with design, deployment, and management of Azure/AWS-based solutions ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and operational readiness.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Assist in building and maintaining IaC using Bicep, CDK, CDKTF and Terraform for Azure and AWS resources.
• Enhance multi-cloud automation frameworks covering provisioning, configuration, and deployment pipelines.
• Support automated guardrails, policy enforcement, and cloud governance patterns across both Azure and AWS.
• Help build wrappers, modules to improve IaC workflows.
• Ensure consistent and compliant deployments across environments.

Cloud Enablement

• Act as a trusted advisor for internal engineering teams, offering guidance on cloud best practices, multi-cloud patterns, workload migration, and architectural decisions.
• Participate in architecture reviews and technical workshops supporting both Azure and AWS solutions.
• Connect cloud services to create a seamless developer experience.

Security, Governance & Compliance

• Collaborate with cybersecurity, and compliance teams to conduct cloud service reviews, assessments.
• Ensure all cloud workloads adhere to industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

Operations & Optimization

• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues across Azure and AWS environments.
• Troubleshoot and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, security scanning, and deployments.
• Optimize containerized environments (AKS, ECS/EKS) for performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Review and assist with implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, backups, and operational runbooks for all workloads.
• Support patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management for container and cloud services.
• Drive cloud services end-to-end with autonomy, from design to deployment to ongoing improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of hands‑on experience designing and deploying cloud infrastructure, primarily in Azure, with working experience in AWS.
• Strong IaC development experience using Bicep, CDK, CDKTF and Terraform (multi‑cloud).
• Solid understanding of compute, storage, networking, identity, and security concepts across Azure and AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions; AWS Code Pipeline an asset).
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, or Bash).
• Practical experience with cloud security and operational best practices.
• Hands‑on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (AKS, EKS, ECS, ACR, ECR).

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certifications such as AZ‑104, AZ‑305, or AZ‑400.
• AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Associate) are a strong asset.
• Experience in enterprise or regulated environments with multi‑cloud governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with FinOps practices across Azure and AWS.

Core Competencies

• Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Customer-focused mindset with emphasis on enablement and partnership.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and lead end-to-end cloud engineering initiatives.

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.