Principal Cloud Engineer AI

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The Team - We accelerate BMOs AI journey by building cloud-native AI solutions. Our team combines engineering excellence with cutting-edge AI to deliver scalable secure and responsible solutions that power business innovation across the bank. We enable and accelerate our partners on their AI journeys across the enterprise helping teams across BMO unlock value at scale. We support one another in times of need and take pride in our work. We are engineers AI practitioners platform builders thought leaders multipliers and coders. Above all we are a global team of diverse individuals who enjoy working together to create smart secure and scalable solutions that make an impact across the enterprise. Our ambition is bold: deploy our capital and resources to their highest and most profitable use through a digital-first operating model powered by data and AI-driven decisions.

The Impact
As a Principal AI & Cloud Engineer you are a hands-on technical developer who designs builds and scales cloud-native AI solutions and products. You help set engineering standards establish patterns mentor senior engineers and partner with multiple teams to deliver resilient governed and cost-efficient AI at enterprise scale. Youll help shape and evolve our AI cloud strategy from model serving and LLMOps to security observability and compliance so teams across the bank can innovate safely and rapidly.

You will advance BMOs Digital First strategy by:

• Defining reference and production-grade solutions for AI/GenAI on cloud (Azure/AWS preferred; multi-cloud aware).
• Building reusable secure and observable components (APIs SDKs microservices pipelines).
• Operationalizing LLMs and RAG with strong controls and Responsible AI guardrails.
• Driving platform roadmaps that enable faster delivery lower risk and measurable business outcomes.

Whats In It for You

• Influence the technical direction of AI and the platform primitives others build on.
• Ship high-impact systems used across many business lines and products.
• Work across the full stack: cloud infra data/feature pipelines model serving LLMOps and DevSecOps.
• Partner with a leadership team invested in your growth and thought leadership.

Responsibilities Infrastructure & Platform Builder

• Design build and operate cloud-native AI infrastructure for ML/GenAI workloads:
• Compute: GPU/CPU clusters autoscaling spot instance strategies
• Networking: Azure VNet Private Link peering multi-region HA/DR
• Storage & Databases: high-performance data lakes (e.g. Azure Data Lake Storage) relational DBs vector DBs (FAISS Milvus Pinecone pgvector)
• Security: IAM Key Vault-backed secrets management encryption policy-as-code
• Implement observability and reliability for AI infra:
• Metrics (latency throughput GPU utilization cost)
• Logging/tracing (OpenTelemetry) SLOs/SLIs for infra services
• Build CI/CD and GitOps pipelines for infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Bicep) and AI platform components
• Drive FinOps for AI infra: GPU rightsizing caching inference optimization cost governance

Application & Service Enablement

• Enable frontend and backend services for AI platforms:
• Secure APIs microservices and event-driven architectures
• Integration with custom model runtimes (TensorRT-LLM vLLM Triton/KServe)
• Provide infrastructure support for RAG systems: embeddings chunking retrieval pipelines
• Ensure scalable serving infrastructure for LLMs and ML models with caching and token optimization

Strategy & Architecture

• Define and evolve AI infrastructure reference architecture for cloud (Azure preferred):
• Container orchestration (Kubernetes) service mesh ingress
• Serverless/event-driven patterns for AI pipelines
• Multi-region HA/DR compliance-ready designs
• Establish standards and best practices for containerization IaC and secure networking for AI systems

Security Risk & Governance

• Implement defense-in-depth for AI infra:
• IAM least privilege private networking KMS/Key Vault SBOM image signing
• Ensure compliance and Responsible AI controls at infra level:
• Data residency encryption lineage audit readiness

Delivery & Operations

• Lead infrastructure discovery and solution design with stakeholders
• Operate platforms with SRE principles: error budgets incident response chaos testing
• Mentor engineers; create reusable IaC modules templates and golden paths

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in CS Engineering or related field
• 7 years building large-scale distributed cloud infrastructure
• 5 years hands-on with Azure/AWS
• Proven experience with AI/ML infra: GPU clusters Kubernetes CI/CD observability
• Strong in IaC (Terraform/Bicep) Kubernetes networking security
• Expertise in cloud-native patterns: containers service mesh serverless
• Familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps infra: model serving feature stores vector DBs
• Programming in Python (infra automation) and one of Go/TypeScript for tooling
• Understanding of frontend/backend integration for AI services
• Familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps infra: model serving feature stores vector DBs
• Programming in Python (infra automation) and one of Go/TypeScript for tooling
• Understanding of frontend/backend integration for AI services

Nice-to-Have

• GPU optimization (CUDA/NCCL TensorRT-LLM)
• Observability tools (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry)
• Event streaming (Kafka/Azure Event Hubs) real-time systems
• Experience with AI platform products (Azure ML MLflow KServe Hugging Face)

Success Metrics

• Reliability & Performance: SLOs met for infra services GPU utilization optimized
• Security & Compliance: Zero critical findings auditable infra
• Cost Efficiency: Reduced GPU/infra spend via FinOps strategies
• Developer Velocity: Faster provisioning and deployment of AI infra
• Technical Leadership: Influence on infra standards mentorship reusable patterns

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The above represents BMO Financial Groups 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 Groups expected target for the first year in this position.

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