Platform Engineer; Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform

Description

Delavan Holdings is hiring a Platform Engineer in Delavan, WI to build and operate our Azure cloud environment, Kubernetes platforms, and infrastructure as code. This is an on-site, full-time role owning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability for a multi-company portfolio.

Own the Azure environment, the container platforms, and the observability stack that every internal application and AI workload at Delavan Holdings runs on.

• Job type:
  Full-time
• Schedule:
  
  Monday to Friday, day shift
• Work location:
  
  On-site in Delavan, WI 53115
• Benefits: [confirm standard Delavan Holdings package - health, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO]

Commutable from Lake Geneva, Elkhorn, Whitewater, Burlington, East Troy, Janesville, and Walworth County, and within reach of the Milwaukee, Madison, and Rockford metro areas.

Delavan Holdings is a diversified holding company with interests spanning automotive retail, RV dealerships, hospitality, logistics, industrial services, and professional services across Wisconsin and the greater Midwest. Our portfolio includes Kunes Auto Group, Kunes RV, Lake Lawn Resort, Camp Timber-Lee, G10 Fulfillment, and Ignition Dealer Services. The Office of the CTO is building a small, senior technology team at the holding company that serves every operating company in the portfolio, and this is one of five roles we are adding to it.

You would be the first dedicated platform engineer at the holding company. The cloud footprint, the infrastructure-as-code, the deployment path, and the alerting are all yours to build and operate, and the engineers, data team, and IT staff across our operating companies depend on them.

• Build, operate, and maintain our Azure environment end to end: subscriptions, cloud identity and access, networking, compute, and storage, plus the cost discipline to keep spend predictable
• Define and manage infrastructure as code in Terraform or Bicep, kept in Git Hub with code review and documented changes, so environments are reproducible and maintainable by more than one person
• Operate the container platforms running our internal applications and services, including the API and AI gateway components, and administer the gateways themselves: routing, authentication, rate limiting, and policy
• Own monitoring, alerting, and observability: build the dashboards and the alerts that are actually actionable, and serve as primary responder for infrastructure incidents and outages
• Diagnose to root cause, ship the fix, communicate status to affected teams, write the RCA, and run the lessons-learned review
• Maintain the infrastructure beneath our data platform, including compute, storage, orchestration, and connectivity, in partnership with the data and analytics team
• Manage backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity for platform-hosted systems, including regular recovery testing rather than assumed recoverability
• Handle credentials, access, and data responsibly across entities: least-privilege access, secrets out of code, and respect for entity boundaries and data governance
• Take changes through design, build, test, and release, deploying through staged Azure environments with controlled releases
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, reviews, and retrospectives, keeping work broken down and current in Asana
• Partner with forward deployed engineers, the data team, and IT to unblock deployments and make the safe path the easy path
• Use AI tools at an advanced level in daily work: writing and reviewing infrastructure code, diagnosing issues, drafting documentation, and automating routine tasks, while verifying output and owning the result

• 3 or more years in platform engineering, infrastructure, Dev Ops, cloud, or site reliability engineering, operating production systems
• Hands-on Azure:
  Entra , RBAC, service principals and managed identities, virtual networks, DNS, firewalls, private endpoints, and core compute and storage services
• Production Kubernetes experience (AKS or EKS), including deployments, networking, scaling, and upgrades
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, Bicep, or similar. Depth in the underlying skills matters more to us than the specific tool
• Strong Power Shell or Bash scripting, practiced inside a modern workflow:
  Git and Git Hub, code review, and documenting and testing changes as routine
• Strong SQL and comfort supporting database and data platform infrastructure
• Monitoring and observability with…