Platform Engineer

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 Details Job type: Full-timeSchedule: Monday to Friday, day shiftWork location: On-site in Delavan, WI 53115Benefits: [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. About Delavan Holdings 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. What You'll Do 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 predictableDefine and manage infrastructure as code in Terraform or Bicep, kept in GitHub with code review and documented changes, so environments are reproducible and maintainable by more than one personOperate 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 policyOwn monitoring, alerting, and observability: build the dashboards and the alerts that are actually actionable, and serve as primary responder for infrastructure incidents and outagesDiagnose to root cause, ship the fix, communicate status to affected teams, write the RCA, and run the lessons-learned reviewMaintain the infrastructure beneath our data platform, including compute, storage, orchestration, and connectivity, in partnership with the data and analytics teamManage backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity for platform-hosted systems, including regular recovery testing rather than assumed recoverabilityHandle credentials, access, and data responsibly across entities: least-privilege access, secrets out of code, and respect for entity boundaries and data governanceTake changes through design, build, test, and release, deploying through staged Azure environments with controlled releasesParticipate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, reviews, and retrospectives, keeping work broken down and current in AsanaPartner with forward deployed engineers, the data team, and IT to unblock deployments and make the safe path the easy pathUse 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 Requirements What We're Looking For 3 or more years in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, cloud, or site reliability engineering, operating production systemsHands-on Azure: Entra ID, RBAC, service principals and managed identities, virtual networks, DNS, firewalls, private endpoints, and core compute and storage servicesProduction Kubernetes experience (AKS or EKS), including deployments, networking, scaling, and upgradesInfrastructure as code with Terraform, Bicep, or similar. Depth in the underlying skills matters more to us than the specific toolStrong PowerShell or Bash scripting, practiced inside a modern workflow: Git and GitHub, code review, and documenting and testing changes as routineStrong SQL and comfort supporting database and data platform infrastructureMonitoring and observability with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Datadog, or equivalent, used to drive real incident responseBackup, disaster recovery, and business continuity practice, including recovery testing, plus cloud cost monitoring and managementSound security and data governance habits: least-privilege access, secret management, and careful handling of sensitive data across multiple entitiesAdvanced fluency with AI tools in engineering work, such as coding agents and assistants for infrastructure code, troubleshooting, and documentation, paired with the judgment to verify what they produceStrong written communication and documentation habits, with the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders What Sets You Apart You have administered an API gateway such as Kong or Azure API Management, or an AI gateway routing LLM trafficYou write working Python for automation and toolingYou have worked with event-driven architectures such as queues, pub/sub, or streaming, for example with RedisYou have operated under financial-reporting controls or audit requirements such as change logging and access reviewYou have built a platform from close to nothing and know which corners are safe to cut early and which are notYou treat documentation and runbooks as part of the deliverable, not as cleanupBackground in automotive retail, hospitality, logistics, or multi-entity or holding company environments Why Delavan Holdings A small, senior team where you own real surface area instead of a slice of someone else's systemGreenfield work: much of what you build will be the first version of itself at this companyA portfolio spanning automotive retail, RV, hospitality, logistics, and fulfillment, which means genuinely varied technical problemsAI is not a side project here. It is budgeted, used daily by leadership, and expected to be part of how engineering work gets doneDirect access to the CTO and to the operators you are building for, with a short path from idea to productionBased in the Lake Geneva region of southeastern Wisconsin, with an entrepreneurial, low-bureaucracy culture Delavan Holdings is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.