Principal Azure Cloud Engineer

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About the Role

As a Principal Azure Platform Engineer you will play a handson engineering role within BMOs 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 crossfunctional collaboration. You will work in agile crossfunctional pods with cloud engineering data engineering teams and security and risk partners to evolve BMOs 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 CDKTFbased frameworks.
• Create reusable modular deployment patterns that balance selfservice 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 securitybydesign 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)

• Handson experience engineering solutions on Microsoft Azure in largescale or regulated environments.
• 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 leastprivilege access patterns.

CloudNative 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 (NicetoHave)

• Experience implementing monitoring logging alerting and operational dashboards.
• Familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs SLOs and resilience patterns.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors Degree in a relevant field (Computer Science Engineering)
• 10 years of experience in cloud engineering platform engineering leadership or 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.

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