About the role

What will you do at Wachter, Inc.?

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.
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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.
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$70,000 - $130,000 a year
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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 [https://www.facebook.com/wachterinc/], Instagram
[https://www.instagram.com/wachterinc/?hl=en], Twitter
[https://twitter.com/wachterinc], and LinkedIn
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/38222/admin/].
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.

Which skills does this role require?

IaaSPaaSWindows ServerLinuxHyper-VKubernetesObservabilityAKSActive DirectoryComplianceHelmHybrid connectivityPlatform engineeringSystemd

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