[Hiring] Senior Cloud Engineer @BMO

Role Description

The Senior Cloud Engineer is a core member of the Cloud Product Engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role combines deep hands-on technical expertise with strong enablement capabilities, supporting internal development teams in adopting cloud services efficiently and consistently.

• Develop AWS based infrastructure patterns.
• Build automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Optimize modern application hosting platforms.
• Ensure solutions comply with security, governance, and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture & Engineering
  • Assist with design, build, and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure solutions using compute, networking, storage, serverless, and managed platform services.
  • Review and assist with architecting AWS solutions that meet enterprise requirements for scalability, security, governance, and cost efficiency.
  • Review and maintain reusable cloud patterns, foundational components, and reference architectures.
  • Support serverless and container-based workloads using AWS-native services.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation
  • Troubleshoot and maintain infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and CDK for AWS resources.
  • Review and assist in developing reusable IaC modules and templates to ensure consistency and compliance.
  • Develop and maintain policy as code using Rego policies and helper functions to enforce security, governance, and compliance standards.
  • Review and enhance automated controls for provisioning, configuration management, and environmental consistency.
• Security, Identity & Compliance
  • Review and maintain authentication and authorization models using AWS IAM, roles, and policies.
  • Collaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to conduct design reviews and ensure adherence to regulatory standards.
  • Review cloud security best practices and secure configuration baselines across AWS environments.
• Operations, Monitoring & Optimization
  • Implement and optimize monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch and related AWS observability services.
  • Ensure strong operational visibility through traces, metrics, logs, dashboards, and runbooks.
  • Optimize AWS workloads for performance, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
  • Ensure operational readiness, including backup and recovery considerations.
• Developer Experience & Cloud Enablement
  • Partner with software engineering teams to guide cloud onboarding, implementation best practices, and architecture decisions.
  • Support implementation of PoC/MVP and production-ready AWS solutions.
  • Promote engineering standards, reusable patterns, and automation-first delivery practices.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience in production environments.
• AWS Serverless or expertise in Containers.
• Implementation experience (support or DevOps experience is NOT relevant) with several of the following:
  • Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • DynamoDB
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • Kinesis
  • Cognito
  • Service Catalog
  • IAM
  • VPC
  • CloudWatch
  • EventBridge
  • S3
  • RDS
  • Step Functions
• AWS Containers - MANDATORY, or expertise in Serverless.
• Implementation experience (support or DevOps experience is NOT relevant) with several of the following:
  • Docker
  • ECS Fargate
  • ECR
  • EFS
• Experience with event-driven architecture patterns (SNS/SQS/EventBridge).
• Scripting knowledge in Javascript/NodeJs/Typescript/Python - MANDATORY (at least one) OR extensive Software Development experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, Solutions Architect Associate/Professional).
• AWS Deployment - nice to have:
  • CloudFormation
  • CDK
  • Liquibase (Database Schema Management)
  • GitHub Actions / Reusable Workflows
• Software Development - nice to have.
• Experience in designing and implementing PoC/MVP end-to-end AWS-based solutions - nice to have.

Core Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and drive cloud services end-to-end.
• Effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across diverse engineering and business teams.
• Customer-focused mindset with strong commitment to enabling high-performing developer teams.
• Ability to mentor junior team members and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.

Salary

$75,900.00 - $141,900.00

Pay Type: Salaried

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Accident and life insurance
• Retirement savings plans