Senior AWS Resilience Consultant

Job Description

BMO is currently sourcing for a Senior AWS Resilience Consultant.
This is a hybrid contract role in Scarborough (2 days in office per week).

Role Overview:
The Senior AWS Resilience Consultant will lead the operationalization of AWS Next Generation Resilience Hub for the Bank’s Resiliency Engineering team. This role involves hands-on cloud engineering, solution architecture, product ownership, project delivery, and process definition to enhance cloud resilience. The position supports enterprise-wide resiliency practices and strategic initiatives, working closely with senior leadership and multiple cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operationalize cloud resilience solutions leveraging AWS Resilience Hub and other AWS services.
• Lead end-to-end delivery including solution design, development, testing, implementation, and production readiness.
• Deploy services using AWS CDK to provision components, apply policies, and enforce least-privilege IAM.
• Define operating models, processes, standards, and governance to support enterprise adoption of AWS Resilience Hub.
• Establish resiliency policies, service modeling standards, assessment processes, reporting practices, and exception handling procedures.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Architecture, Service Transition, and Resiliency Engineering teams to ensure seamless delivery and adoption.
• Manage PDLC governance activities including design reviews, risk and security assessments, and Go-Live approvals.
• Lead technical discussions in executive governance, architecture councils, and senior stakeholder forums.
• Manage delivery planning, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and stakeholder communications.
• Produce clear documentation such as process guides, operating procedures, stakeholder presentations, onboarding materials, and support documentation.
• Conduct Proof-of-Concepts, analyze results, and present recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Keep senior leadership informed of progress, risks, dependencies, and key decisions; proactively escalate blockers.
• Champion continuous improvement and adoption of cloud-native resilience best practices across the enterprise.

Must-Have Skills:

• 10+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering, or Resiliency Engineering within a large enterprise.
• Deep expertise in AWS services, cloud resilience patterns, and enterprise cloud operating models.
• Strong proficiency in AWS CDK, AWS CloudFormation, or other infrastructure-as-code delivery approaches.
• Extensive experience in resilience engineering domains including High Availability, Observability, Disaster Recovery, Testing, and Posture Analysis.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex, cross-functional cloud engineering initiatives end-to-end.
• Strong understanding of enterprise governance, PDLC frameworks, security/risk processes, and operational readiness.
• Product ownership, project management, and process design skills.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and engineering workflow tools.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Resilience Hub is a strong asset.

Nice to Have Skills:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Experience in financial services or other regulated environments.
• Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framework, cloud resilience assessments, operational readiness, and chaos engineering practices.
• Experience creating executive presentations, process documentation, user guides, and operational support materials.

Ideal Candidate:

• Proven ability to lead technical discussions and influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional “team of teams” environment.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced setting.
• Track record of driving strategic cloud resilience initiatives from concept through execution.

Qualifications

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