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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.

Your 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

Required Core Skills:

• 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

Other Skills:

• 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

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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 http://jobs.bmo.com/us/en

BMO is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other legally protected characteristics. We also consider applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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