Senior Cloud Engineer

BMO•Toronto, ON

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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).

Nice To Haves

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.
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.

Responsibilities

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