Alteryx Platform / Infrastructure Engineer

Role: Alteryx Platform / Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Minneapolis, MN (Onsite)

Type: Contract

Day-to-Day Job Duties:

• Support the setup, deployment, configuration, and operational readiness of the Alteryx platform across enterprise environments.
• Work with infrastructure teams to coordinate the provisioning and build of servers required for Alteryx deployments, including submitting and tracking appropriate ServiceNow requests.
• Prepare and maintain configuration workbooks, Excel-based infrastructure specifications, and other required documentation containing the appropriate server, environment, network, security, and application configuration details.
• Coordinate installation and configuration of Alteryx Server and related software components on provisioned infrastructure.
• Validate server prerequisites and ensure environments are prepared according to required enterprise architecture and platform standards.
• Work closely with Networking, Infrastructure, Information Security, Database, and Application teams to ensure connectivity and security requirements are appropriately addressed.
• Understand and communicate networking requirements including:
  • Server connectivity
  • Firewall requirements
  • Ports and protocols
  • DNS
  • Load balancing
  • Network segmentation
  • Environment-to-environment connectivity

• Coordinate security requirements associated with the Alteryx platform, including authentication, authorization, service accounts, access controls, certificates, and enterprise security standards.
• Support the creation and maintenance of appropriate Alteryx environment configurations across development, testing, and production environments.
• Review proposed infrastructure and configuration specifications to confirm that the appropriate servers, software, connectivity, security, and dependent services have been requested.
• Work with shared database and infrastructure teams to review and validate SQL Server configuration and connectivity requirements supporting Alteryx workloads.
• As the platform evolves, support validation of shared SQL Server settings and configuration, ensuring environments and enclaves are connected according to the appropriate enterprise Tier and security architecture.
• Coordinate with database teams to ensure required SQL Server instances, connectivity, service accounts, access permissions, and configuration standards are established.
• Troubleshoot Alteryx platform setup, connectivity, server, database, configuration, and environmental issues in partnership with appropriate technical teams.
• Maintain platform configuration documentation, deployment procedures, environment inventories, installation instructions, and operational runbooks.
• Participate in platform upgrades, patches, configuration changes, infrastructure changes, and environment-validation activities.
• Work with application and business teams to understand platform requirements and translate them into appropriate infrastructure and technical requests.
• Ensure platform implementation activities comply with enterprise infrastructure, networking, security, database, and change-management standards.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 5+ years of overall experience in application infrastructure, platform engineering, middleware administration, systems engineering, application support, or related enterprise technology roles.
• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with Alteryx, including Alteryx Server setup, configuration, administration, deployment, or enterprise platform support.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience supporting Windows-based enterprise server environments, including software installation, configuration, validation, and operational support.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience working with infrastructure provisioning and server deployment processes, including coordinating server builds through enterprise request-management processes.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience working with enterprise networking concepts, including firewall rules, ports, protocols, DNS, connectivity, load balancing, and network segmentation.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience working with enterprise security requirements, including authentication, authorization, service accounts, access management, certificates, and security controls.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, including database connectivity, server configuration, authentication, permissions, and application integration.
• Experience coordinating technical activities across Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Database, Application, and Operations teams.
• Experience working with ServiceNow or similar IT service-management platforms for server requests, infrastructure provisioning, change requests, and operational workflows.
• Ability to create and maintain accurate technical configuration documents and Excel-based infrastructure/configuration workbooks.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to analyze platform, infrastructure, network, security, and database dependencies.
• Strong communication and coordination skills with the ability to translate application/platform requirements into actionable infrastructure requests.
• Strong attention to detail when managing environment-specific configurations, server specifications, security requirements, and deployment dependencies.

Nice to Have:

• 2+ years of administration experience with Business Intelligence or analytics platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, Cognos, MicroStrategy, or similar enterprise BI technologies.
• Alteryx Server administration experience covering :
  • Gallery
  • Controller
  • Worker nodes
  • Scheduler
  • Authentication
  • Permissions
  • Workflows
  • Environment configuration

• Experien c e supporting high-availability or multi-node Alteryx Server environments.
• Experience with enterprise SQL Server administration or database-platform coordination.
• Understanding of enterprise network enclaves, security tiers, segmentation, and controlled cross-environment connectivity.
• Experience supporting applications within highly controlled or regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience with infrastructure and operational tools used for:
  • Monitoring
  • Logging
  • Incident management
  • Change management
  • Configuration management

• Experience supporting platform upgrades, patching, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and production-readiness activities.
• Prior experience administering or supporting multiple enterprise BI / Analytics platforms in addition to Alteryx.

Key Competencies:

• Alteryx Platform Administration
• Server Provisioning & Software Installation
• Infrastructure Coordination
• Networking & Connectivity
• Security Configuration
• SQL Server Integration
• ServiceNow Request Management
• Platform Troubleshooting
• Technical Documentation
• Cross-Functional Coordination