Staff Platform Engineer, Senior Vice President

Staff Platform Engineer — Senior Vice President At AlixPartners, we solve the most complex and critical challenges by moving quickly from analysis to action when it really matters; creating value that has a lasting impact on companies, their people, and the communities they serve. We hold ourselves accountable by providing space for authenticity, growth, and equity for everyone. AlixPartners has embraced a hybrid work model to provide flexibility and support work-life integration. Travel is part of this position, but frequency may vary based on client, team, and individual circumstances. Relocation assistance is not available for this position. AlixPartners is building an AI-native development platform that standardizes how code is generated, verified, secured, deployed, and monitored, so AI-assisted product development is safe and repeatable across its portfolio. The Staff Platform Engineer sits at the intersection of infrastructure, delivery engineering, security, and developer experience. You will be one of the engineers who build and operate the substrate every product in AlixPartners' Platforms portfolio inherits — infrastructure as code, delivery pipelines and their gates, the runtime, identity and network, security and compliance controls, telemetry and cost, and the packaged development environment that carries our AI-assisted engineering harness. This is a hands-on engineering position where leadership happens through the work. You will move fluidly between building production infrastructure, implementing multi-tenant isolation, hardening pipeline and policy enforcement, and instrumenting production. Your success is measured by what other engineers can consume without hand-holding: modules, pipelines, and patterns that hold up for the second and third consumer. What you’ll do Platform Infrastructure Engineering • 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. Delivery Pipelines, Security & Compliance Engineering • 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.