Senior Cloud Engineer Azure

Bank of Montreal•Chicago Heights, IL

About The Position

We are seeking an enthusiastic and passionate professional for a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer position. With experience in Azure cloud services, this role will support core business and technology cloud initiatives, with a focus on the Bank's multi-year cloud technology roadmap, facilitating innovation and adoption of Azure technologies. We collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and business technology stakeholders, connecting subject matter experts with business, information, domain, and solution architecture. Your skills are broad – designing, documenting, and implementing cloud and application patterns, participating in the review of patterns with other stakeholders, working with cloud engineering team members and stakeholders to codify best practices and advising business technology teams on the use of cloud patterns to develop application solution designs. You are a self-starter, driven, and can handle multiple projects and priorities. You are passionate about driving the DevOps mindset and culture in a fast-paced, challenging environment where you will get the opportunity to work with a spectrum of the latest tools and technologies to drive forward “Infrastructure-as-Code” and “Infrastructure-as-a-Service”. As a qualified candidate, you will be part of the team driving BMO’s Cloud implementation. As a member of this team, you should possess the ability to inspire yourself and our team. Based on your previous experiences you will inject new knowledge and skills into an already high performing team thus accelerating our efforts to new heights.

Requirements

Around 3+ years of experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Around 5+ relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Deep and broad knowledge of Azure services and experience building solutions on the cloud
Deep and broad general IT knowledge as well as hands-on experience in different areas such as networking, infrastructure, security, solutions architecture and design, OS (Linux/Windows), common protocols and services, identity and access management, automation, troubleshooting, etc.
Demonstrated knowledge of cloud provisioning and administration, cloud interoperability, cloud disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies, as well as performance measurement and monitoring in the cloud on a large scale
Solid experience creating CI/CD pipelines to manage infrastructure deployment and code deployment.
Should have sound experience provisioning Cloud Services as well as their design and architecture components: IaC : Terraform, Bicep, ARM, CDKTF
Programming : Typescript, Python, NodeJS
Pipeline : Github Action, CICD, Build/Deploy, Azure DevOps
Azure Services: Azure Storage Account, Azure Key Vault, Azure VM/VMSS, Azure Container Apps, Azure ACR, Azure Functions, Azure SQLMI/SQLDB, Azure CosmosDB
Strong programming skills with experience in API and Webhook development using Python, Node.js, Ruby, PowerShell, and Shell Scripting languages.
Quickly understand organizational dynamics and management priorities, and to be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, results-driven company.
Demonstrate strong facilitation, negotiation, interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills.
Proven and demonstrable experience in architecting, designing, and implementing high volume, high availability cloud applications with a very high degree of automation
Excellent communication skills for providing specialized consulting, analytical and technical support to internal team members and external CIO Business teams

Nice To Haves

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering and or equivalent industry experience
Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership Skills
A critical thinker with strong research, analytics, and problem-solving skills
Self-motivated with a positive attitude and an ability to work independently and or in a team
Ability to communicate across business units and the ability to interface with and communicate complex technical concepts to a broad range of internal and external stakeholders
Time management skills with the ability to manage multiple streams and lead less experienced engineers

Responsibilities

Design, implement and secure cloud IaaS, PaaS, and higher services in Azure
Create and integrate BMO Cloud Products, core, and shared services
Develop patterns for automated provisioning, management, scalability, and security
Ensure that all cloud solutions follow internally defined security and compliance standards and controls
Design and plan enterprise-scale cloud environments including application dependencies, data storage and flow, network connectivity, and overall cloud hosting
Develop and maintain up-to-date architectural templates, build an operational documentation of the technical environment