Principal Platform & Release Governance Engineer

Risepoint is an education technology company focused on supporting universities and colleges by developing high-ROI, workforce-focused online degree programs. The company is dedicated to increasing access to affordable education for students, especially working adults.

Location: United States

Responsibilities

• Define and formalize enterprise release readiness standards
• Design and implement a maturity-based release model enabling self-service releases for qualified teams
• Replace manual CAB evidence gathering with automated policy-as-code controls embedded in delivery pipelines
• Establish objective eligibility thresholds for self-approval and define escalation paths for non-compliance
• Ensure governance mechanisms are auditable, measurable, and aligned with business risk tolerance
• Design and scale standardized CI/CD pipelines embedding automated security, compliance controls, quality thresholds, testing gates, deployment safety mechanisms, and automated release evidence collection
• Encode governance standards as executable mechanisms rather than documentation or review boards
• Ensure solutions scale across multiple systems without bespoke customization
• Own and oversee existing CAB and release workflows during transformation
• Eliminate recurring manual approval steps through engineered solutions
• Deliver a roadmap transitioning legacy governance to automated mechanisms
• Drive cross-team adoption of standardized pipelines and thresholds
• Influence stakeholders through working software and measurable outcomes
• Analyze release incidents and systemic failure patterns to improve automation and guardrails
• Define success metrics such as reduction in manual approvals, onboarding to pipelines, improvements in DORA metrics, and compliance thresholds
• Bring 8+ years experience in enterprise-scale CI/CD and release systems, transforming governance-heavy processes into automation, defining technical standards, expertise in policy-as-code, secure delivery, and automated compliance controls
• Preferred experience includes modernizing CAB models, federated DevOps, AI-assisted workflows, and familiarity with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Helm, containerization, and observability tooling.

Requirements

• 8+ years designing or operating enterprise-scale CI/CD and release systems
• Experience transforming governance-heavy or approval-driven processes into automated mechanisms
• Ability to define technical standards adopted across multiple teams
• Deep expertise in policy-as-code, secure-by-default delivery systems, and automated compliance controls
• Experience embedding safe deployment patterns at scale
• Systems-level thinking across reliability, security, and velocity tradeoffs