Staff Platform Engineer, Senior Vice President
AlixPartners26 days ago
Base Salary
$175k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate the platform runtime, including container orchestration, multi-tenant isolation, infrastructure-as-code modules, identity, networking, telemetry, service-level objectives, fault injection, and cost attribution.
- Design environment lifecycle automation, versioned templates and images, federated credential-free identity, audited privileged access, and separate internal and external network edges.
- Build and operate shared CI/CD pipelines and pluggable quality, security, and AI-governance gates with block-on-fail enforcement.
- Implement security and compliance as code, including repository scanning, policy and admission controls, signed and attested artifacts, audit trails, SBOMs, and SOC2/ISO 27001 evidence.
- Package and secure the AI-assisted development environment with default-deny egress, short-lived credentials, and isolated shared runners.
- Measure and improve developer outcomes such as setup time, time to first commit, pipeline duration, gate false-positive rates, and adoption.
- Lead architecture decisions through prototypes, proofs of concept, architecture decision records, design reviews, and pull-request reviews.
- Drive adoption of platform standards and support product-team migrations onto the platform.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related technical field.
- Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience at fleet scale, including module architecture, remote state, and multi-environment topology using Terraform or OpenTofu with Terragrunt or an equivalent.
- Production experience operating multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms with workload identity, tenant isolation, network and admission policy, and GitOps practices.
- Experience building shared CI/CD platforms with reusable workflow contracts, fleet-scale branch protection, and enforced quality and security gates using GitHub Actions or an equivalent.
- Strong cloud identity and network security experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, or a comparable hyperscaler, including workload identity federation, RBAC, private networking, WAF, and DNS.
- Substantive security and compliance-as-code experience with scanning toolchains, policy engines, supply-chain controls, signing, provenance, SBOMs, and SOC2/ISO 27001 evidence.
- Production observability experience with OpenTelemetry or an equivalent, including collector topology, SLOs, error budgets, alert routing, incident management, and fault injection.
- Experience building and operating production application software in Go, Python, or TypeScript, plus fluency in testing strategy, code review, trunk-based delivery, and release management.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and cross-functional product collaboration, willingness to work outside normal business hours when needed, and ability to work in office and remote environments.
- Preferred qualifications include consulting or professional-services platform experience, client isolation and data residency expertise, vcluster, Crossplane, Backstage, Port, AI coding-assistant platform operations, cloud/Kubernetes/security certifications, FinOps, and developer education experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with travel varying by client, team, and individual circumstances; relocation assistance is not available.
- Health, vision, dental, disability, 401K, tuition reimbursement, identity theft protection, and mental wellness support.
- Paid vacation and personal time starting at 7.34 hours per pay period, sick time up to 80 hours annually, parental leave, and twelve holidays.
- Annual discretionary bonus eligibility.
- The job posting remains open until December 31, 2026.
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About AlixPartners
AlixPartners is a global management consulting firm focused on turnaround and restructuring, performance improvement, investigations, and digital transformation for corporations, private equity, and law firms. It provides fee-based advisory and interim management services that move from analysis to implementation in high-stakes situations. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in New York, it is majority-owned by CVC Capital Partners and serves clients worldwide across many industries.