{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"f32602984073c9b9535b3cfe","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f32602984073c9b9535b3cfe","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f32602984073c9b9535b3cfe","title":"Principal Platform & Release Governance Engineer","description":"Risepoint is an education technology company that provides world-class support and trusted expertise to more than 100 universities and colleges. We primarily work with regional universities, helping them develop and grow their high-ROI, workforce-focused online degree programs in critical areas such as nursing, teaching, business, and public service. Risepoint is dedicated to increasing access to affordable education so that more students, especially working adults, can improve their careers and meet employer and community needs.\nRisepoint's mission depends on our ability to deliver secure, reliable, high-quality software at increasing velocity. Engineering Enablement ensures product teams can move fast with guardrails - not gates - by embedding release safety, security, and operational standards directly into automated systems.\nThe Impact You Will Make\nYou will define what \"release ready\" means at Risepoint and engineer that definition into automation.\nThis role owns the enterprise release governance model and is accountable for transforming manual approval processes into measurable, automated, risk-based controls. You will design CAB 2.0 - a maturity-based release framework that enables qualified teams to self-approve releases using objective readiness signals embedded in CI/CD pipelines.\nYour success is measured by systemic change: reduced manual governance, improved deployment safety, and durable automation that scales across the engineering organization.\nHow You Will Bring Our Mission to Life\nEnterprise Release Governance Architecture (CAB 2.0)\nDefine and formalize enterprise release readiness standards\nDesign and implement a maturity-based release model that enables self-service releases for qualified teams\nReplace manual CAB evidence gathering with automated policy-as-code controls embedded in delivery pipelines\nEstablish objective eligibility thresholds for self-approval and define escalation paths for non-compliance\nEnsure governance mechanisms are auditable, measurable, and aligned with business risk tolerance\nPlatform & Pipeline Engineering\nDesign and scale standardized CI/CD pipelines that embed:\nAutomated security and compliance controls\nQuality thresholds and testing gates\nDeployment safety mechanisms (canary, progressive rollout, automated rollback)\nAutomated release evidence collection\nEncode governance standards as executable mechanisms rather than documentation or review boards\nEnsure solutions scale consistently across dozens of systems without bespoke customization\nAutomation of Transitional Processes\nOwn and oversee existing CAB and release workflows during the transformation period\nSystematically eliminate recurring manual approval steps through engineered solutions\nDeliver a two-year roadmap that transitions legacy governance mechanisms to automated equivalents as applications sunset\nOrganizational Influence & Adoption\nDirect contractor efforts aligned to platform and governance outcomes\nDrive cross-team adoption of standardized pipelines and maturity thresholds\nInfluence engineering, AppSec, QA, and Cloud Operations stakeholders through working software and measurable outcomes\nPartner with leadership to align release standards with risk tolerance and operational resilience goals\nContinuous Improvement of Operational Signals\nAnalyze release-related incidents and systemic failure patterns\nConvert recurring release pain points into automation, guardrails, or elimination\nUse telemetry and DORA metrics to guide prioritization and validate impact\nWhat Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)\nCAB 2.0 framework defined, approved, and operationalized\n60% reduction in manual CAB approvals for eligible teams\n75% of production systems onboarded to standardized release pipelines\n2 DORA metrics measurably improved (deployment frequency, change failure rate, or lead time)\n90% of repositories meeting baseline security and quality thresholds via automated enforcement\nDocumented reduction in release-related coordination tickets\nHow Impact Will Be Measured\nManual CAB volume reduction\n% teams eligible for self-approved releases\nGolden pipeline adoption rate\nDeployment frequency\nChange failure rate\nMTTR\n% repositories meeting automated compliance thresholds\nReduction in release-related incidents\nDeveloper experience feedback\nWhat You'll Bring to the Team\nExperience That Matters Most\n8+ years designing or operating enterprise-scale CI/CD and release systems\nDemonstrated experience transforming governance-heavy or approval-driven processes into automated mechanisms\nProven ability to define technical standards adopted across multiple teams\nDeep expertise in policy-as-code, secure-by-default delivery systems, and automated compliance controls\nExperience embedding safe deployment patterns at scale\nSystems-level thinking across reliability, security, and velocity tradeoffs\nExperience That's Great to Have\nExperience modernizing or replacing CAB models\nExperience in federated DevOps or platform organizations\nExperience building AI-assisted release readiness or incident automation 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We primarily work with regional universities, helping them develop and grow their high-ROI, workforce-focused online degree programs in critical areas such as nursing, teaching, business, and public service. Risepoint is dedicated to increasing access to affordable education so that more students, especially working adults, can improve their careers and meet employer and community needs.\nRisepoint's mission depends on our ability to deliver secure, reliable, high-quality software at increasing velocity. Engineering Enablement ensures product teams can move fast with guardrails - not gates - by embedding release safety, security, and operational standards directly into automated systems.\nThe Impact You Will Make\nYou will define what \"release ready\" means at Risepoint and engineer that definition into automation.\nThis role owns the enterprise release governance model and is accountable for transforming manual approval processes into measurable, automated, risk-based controls. 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