Sr. Systems Engineer – AI Platforms

Senior Systems Engineer

The Senior Systems Engineer serves as the technical architecture authority for the platforms team, owning integration design, security standards, platform governance, and server administration across the Alteryx, KNIME, and cloud infrastructure estate. This hands-on senior engineering role defines platform standards and reference architectures, engineers and administers on-premises and cloud platform infrastructure, and builds production automation in Python and Power Shell. The role also owns developer experience and onboarding for LLM tooling, including the OpenAI API and Claude API platforms, provides Tier 2 technical support during U.S. hours for escalated configuration, identity, and integration issues, and serves as the dedicated technical counterpart to the identity, security, networking, and infrastructure teams and to peer engineering teams on shared technical concerns.

The role is expected to flex into adjacent areas of the department as priorities evolve, learn new platforms and technologies quickly, and cross-skill and mentor other associates.

Responsibilities:

• • (25%) Technical Architecture Authority and Platform Standards:
  Serve as the technical architecture authority for the platforms team, owning reference architectures, design patterns, environment topology, and platform standards across Alteryx, KNIME, cloud infrastructure, and AI platform services. Review and approve technical designs, integration proposals, and significant configuration changes; evaluate new tools and vendor releases for technical fit, security posture, scalability, and supportability; and maintain architecture decision records. Own platform governance, including environment strategy, naming and tagging standards, technical acceptance criteria, change control, and upgrade, capacity, resiliency, and technical debt planning.
• • (20%) Alteryx, KNIME, and Cloud Infrastructure Engineering and Server Administration:
  Own hands-on administration and engineering of Alteryx Server and KNIME Server or Business Hub environments, including installation, node and executor configuration, scheduling, workflow deployment pipelines, repository and persistence management, licensing, performance tuning, patching, version upgrades, and platform migrations. Administer the supporting Windows and Linux server estate and cloud infrastructure, covering compute, storage, networking, backup and disaster recovery, monitoring and alerting, certificate management, and capacity and cost optimization.
• • (15%) Integration Design, Identity, and Security Engineering:
  Design and implement platform integrations, including data source connectivity and driver management, API and service-to-service integrations, service account and secrets management, and orchestration across analytics, data, and AI platforms. Own SSO and access architecture, including SAML and OIDC federation, SCIM provisioning, security group architecture and nesting standards, and role-based access control. Define and maintain platform security standards, including hardening baselines, TLS and certificate lifecycle, least-privilege models, vulnerability remediation, and audit logging, in partnership with the security, compliance, and identity teams.
• • (15%) Automation, Scripting, and Internal Tooling:
  Design, write, and maintain production-grade automation in Python and Power Shell to eliminate manual platform operations, including provisioning and deprovisioning, bulk configuration changes, deployment pipelines, configuration drift detection, health and reconciliation checks, credential rotation, and operational reporting. Apply infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices; manage code in Git with peer review, testing, secrets management, logging, and error handling; and use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while applying full engineering rigor to everything shipped.
• • (15%) Developer Experience and LLM Tooling Onboarding:
  Own developer experience and onboarding for LLM tooling, including the OpenAI API and Claude API platforms and approved agentic coding tools. Provision and manage organization and project structure, API keys and scoped…