Azure Platform Engineer

Job description

**Wachter's greatest asset is the people who work here. Join the Wachter family and chart your career path!** We are currently accepting applications for an Azure Platform Engineer in our Lenexa Kansas office. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain the internal platform and self-service tooling that engineering and IT teams use to deploy and run applications across on-prem and Azure. We seek self-motivated and reliable electricians who can work independently and find solutions to complete the job. Long-term employment with competitive pay and exceptional benefits for qualified candidates. We value relationships and invest in our employees. ### Benefits- Company Paid! - Medical, Dental, Prescription & Vision Benefits - Life, AD&D, and LTD insurance - Paid Vacation and Holidays - Company-Matched 401(k) and IRA Retirement Savings. ### Responsibilities: - Design, build, and maintain the internal platform and self-service tooling that engineering and IT teams use to deploy and run applications across on-prem and Azure. - Manage and automate provisioning of Windows Server and Linux hosts in both on-prem (Hyper-V) and Azure IaaS/PaaS environments. - Build and operate Kubernetes clusters (AKS in Azure, and/or on-prem distributions) including networking, storage, ingress, and workload onboarding. - Own infrastructure-as-code: author and maintain reusable modules and templates so environments are reproducible and version-controlled. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, golden paths, and deployment automation that let teams ship safely without manual handoffs. - Implement observability across the estate: monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards for both infrastructure and application health. - Harden the platform to meet security and compliance requirements, and produce the evidence/automation needed to sustain audits. - Document platform capabilities, runbooks, and standards, and support internal teams adopting them. - Participate in on-call / incident response and drive post-incident improvements. ### Required Skills: - Strong Azure experience across IaaS and PaaS: compute, networking (VNets, NSGs, load balancing), storage, and governance (subscriptions, RBAC, policy). - Solid Windows Server administration (Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell) in a production environment. - Solid Linux administration (common distros, systemd, shell, package management, troubleshooting). - Hyper-V virtualization: provisioning, management, and troubleshooting in production. - Kubernetes in production: cluster operations, Helm, ingress, secrets, and workload troubleshooting (AKS a plus). - Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform - CI/CD pipeline design (Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions). - Strong scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python). - Entra ID (Azure AD) and hybrid identity concepts. - Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, routing, firewalls, hybrid connectivity. ### What Will Make You Stand Out: - Experience using Claude Code (or similar AI coding agents) to automate infrastructure, scripting, and platform tasks. - Configuration management (Ansible, DSC). - Container registry, image scanning, and supply-chain security tooling. - GitOps (Argo CD, Flux). - GitHub (repos, Actions, and pull-request workflows) as the primary version-control platform.