Senior Manager, Azure Cloud Engineering

Job summary

You will design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services while leading cross-functional engineering pods. The role involves implementing reusable deployment patterns, foundational DevOps practices, and ensuring operational excellence across the Azure ecosystem.

Job details

Application Deadline: 10/30/2026 Address: 33 Dundas Street West Job Family Group: Technology Hybrid role As a Senior Manager Azure Platform Engineering, 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/management. 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 with governance. Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement across environments. Build and operationalize DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code platform capabilities to support the rapid growth of the Azure platform. Develop foundational automation and tooling used by engineering teams to provision environments and deploy solutions to Azure consistently and securely. Security, Governance & Risk Apply security‑by‑design principles across identity, networking, encryption, secrets management, and auditability. Ensure Azure 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 through standardized platform guardrails and shared engineering tooling. Required Technical Skills & Competencies Core Azure Cloud Engineering (Must-have) Hands‑on experience engineering solutions on Microsoft Azure in large‑scale or regulated environments. Management experience of an engineering team Strong understanding of Azure platforming, networking, identity, access management, and governance, including shared platform services and foundational cloud capabilities. Experience designing for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. Proven ability to troubleshoot and operate production Azure environments. Infrastructure as Code & DevOps (Must-have) Experience with Infrastructure as Code using GitHub Actions, ARM, Terraform, or similar tools. Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery. Experience building reusable deployment frameworks, foundational automation, or internal platform tooling that enable engineering teams to deploy to Azure. Familiarity with IAM models, role definitions, and least‑privilege access patterns. Cloud‑Native Integration & APIs Experience with Azure API Management or similar API gateway solutions. Understanding of secure service exposure, rate limiting, and API lifecycle management. 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 Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering) 10-15 years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering leadership/management and infrastructure roles. Proven experience delivering and operating Azure environments. Experience designing, implementing and delivering large scale Azure platforms Experience building foundational cloud platform capabilities, engineering enablement tooling, or shared services for internal development teams. Experience driving large projects, where you have demonstrated leadership skills, partnering with technology teams and leaders, building horizontal capabilities across the enterprise. Salary: $85,500.00 - $185,000.00 Pay Type: Salaried 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.

What you’ll do

You will design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and platform services while leading cross-functional engineering pods. The role involves implementing reusable deployment patterns, foundational DevOps practices, and ensuring operational excellence across the Azure ecosystem.

Requirements

Candidates must have 10-15 years of experience in cloud engineering and platform leadership with hands-on expertise in Azure, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps. A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science or Engineering is required.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Accident insurance
• Life insurance
• Retirement savings plans

Listed skills

• Microsoft Azure · Preferred
• Terraform · Preferred
• CI/CD · Preferred
• Leadership · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Azure
• Cloud engineering
• Infrastructure as code
• DevOps
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions
• Platform engineering
• SRE
• CI/CD
• Networking
• Identity and access management
• Azure PaaS
• API management
• Governance
• Scalability
• Leadership
• Scalability Design
• Observability
• Security Governance
• Azure API Management
• Resilience
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Azure Cloud Services
• Application Programming Interface (API)
• Agile Methodology
• Auditing
• Automation
• Microsoft Azure
• Dashboard
• Management
• Cloud Engineering
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Computer Science
• Data Engineering
• Data Governance
• Encryption
• Economic Growth
• Github
• Health Insurance
• Identity And Access Management
• Managed Services
• Milestones (Project Management)
• Operational Excellence
• Platform As A Service (PaaS)
• Product Family Engineering
• Policy Enforcement
• Rate Limiting
• Coaching
• Risk Analysis
• Tooling

Job areas

• Technology
• Management & Leadership
• Engineering
• Software
• Data & Analytics
• Azure Cloud Engineer
• Cloud Architect
• Systems Analysts
• Computer Systems Engineers/Architects
• Computer Occupations, All Other

More jobs from BMO