Azure Platform Engineer

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.

About:   Wachter is a family-owned company since 1930 and we see each employee as a critical piece of the Wachter Family. With over 900 licenses across the country, Wachter serves commercial and industrial clients with the right technologies needed to keep them successful.   We design, install, and maintain the technologies that keep businesses operating efficiently. Our team of dedicated electricians, engineers, and technicians provides electrical, data, security, communications, and automation services to clients in numerous industries.     Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.   We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.