Staff Platform Engineer, Senior Vice President

What you’ll do

What you’ll need

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, platform or infrastructure engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and cross-functional product team collaboration.
• Familiarity with virtual-cluster and control-plane tooling (vcluster, Crossplane) and developer portals (Backstage, Port).

Responsibilities

• Build the platform's runtime: implement one container-orchestrated runtime, tenancy-grade isolation between client engagements, and the module contracts every product inherits.
• Design composable infrastructure as code at fleet scale, with clear input contracts and state boundaries, published as versioned templates and images for every core component.
• Make the environment lifecycle a one-command operation: created by merging a pull request, destroyed by deleting it, with automated proof nothing is left behind.
• Design identity and network as a federated, credential-free system — one identity per engagement, just-in-time audited privileged access, separate internal and external edges.
• Ship telemetry and cost visibility out of the box for every service: standard alerting, service-level objectives on live data, fault injection, and per-engagement cost attribution including AI spend.
• Build and operate the shared delivery pipelines every product runs through, and the pluggable gate framework that quality, security, and AI-governance checks plug into with block-on-fail enforcement.
• Implement security and compliance as code: release-blocking scanning on every repository, policy and admission control, signed and attested artifacts, and an audit trail and software bill of materials, including AI components, on every build as SOC2 / ISO 27001 evidence.
• Package the AI-assisted development environment as a versioned, first-class deliverable, and enforce the sandbox boundary for coding agents: default-deny egress, short-lived credentials, isolated shared runners.
• Run the platform as a product measured by developer outcomes — setup time, time to first commit, pipeline duration, gate false-positive rate, adoption — pruning or redesigning controls when governance burden outgrows benefit and proving every golden path by shipping through it yourself.
• Make the platform's architecture decisions decidable — multi-tenancy, cloud posture, identity provider, network edge — by building the spikes and proofs of concept behind them and produce the security and reliability evidence the program reports against.
• Be the engineer other engineers come to on infrastructure, pipelines, and enforcement: review designs and pull requests, write architecture decision records for anything that closes off future options, and raise the bar for vendor partners through the work rather than formal management.
• Drive adoption of platform standards across product teams, supporting migrations onto the platform where product teams execute and you unblock.
• 10+ years in software engineering, platform or infrastructure engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Hands-on expertise in infrastructure as code at fleet scale (Terraform or OpenTofu with Terragrunt or equivalent): module architecture, remote state, multi-environment topology.
• Demonstrated experience operating multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms in production: GitOps, network and admission policy, workload identity, tenant isolation.
• Experience building CI/CD as a shared platform (GitHub Actions or equivalent), with reusable workflow contracts, fleet-scale branch protection, and enforced quality and security gates.
• Strong hands-on command of cloud identity and network security on Azure/AWS/GCP or a comparable hyperscaler: workload identity federation, RBAC, private networking, WAF, DNS.
• Substantive experience with security and compliance as code: scanning toolchains (Snyk, Checkov, Trivy), policy engines (OPA, Kyverno, Azure Policy), supply chain controls (signing, provenance, SBOM), and SOC2 / ISO 27001 control evidence.
• Production observability with OpenTelemetry or equivalent: collector topology, SLOs and error budgets, alert routing, incident management, fault injection.
• Has built and operated production application software as a software engineer, in at least one of Go, Python, or TypeScript, and is fluent in testing strategy, code review, trunk-based delivery, and release management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; ability to translate complex technical topics to diverse audiences, including engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and cross-functional product team collaboration.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Willingness to work outside of normal business hours, and in particular as unique projects/needs arise.
• Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday
• Must become familiar with, and promote and abide by, our Core Values as defined by the AlixPartners’ Code of Conduct and foster an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization
• Experience building platforms for consulting, advisory, or professional services, including client-isolation and data-residency requirements.
• Familiarity with virtual-cluster and control-plane tooling (vcluster, Crossplane) and developer portals (Backstage, Port).
• Experience operating a platform used by AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or similar), including sandboxing of agent tooling.
• Advanced certifications in cloud architecture, Kubernetes, or security (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, CKA/CKS, CISSP).
• FinOps experience: cost allocation, showback, and cloud cost optimization.
• Demonstrated enthusiasm for developer education — writing internal guides, running workshops, or building internal tooling communities.
• The firm offers a comprehensive benefits program including health, vision, dental, disability, 401K, tuition reimbursement, identity theft protection, and mental wellness support. Employees will also receive a generous paid leave policy including vacation/personal time starting at 7.34 hours per pay period, sick time up to 80 hours annually, parental leave and twelve holidays.
• The salary range for this role takes into account a number of factors and is between $175,000/year - $275,000 range/year with eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus.
• AlixPartners is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or disability. AlixPartners is a proud Silver award-winning Veteran Friendly Employer.
• It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
• This job post will remain open until December 31, 2026.