Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Risepoint is an education technology company focused on supporting universities in developing online degree programs. The Principal Platform & Release Governance Engineer will define and engineer the enterprise release governance model, transforming manual approval processes into automated, risk-based controls to enhance deployment safety and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Define and formalize enterprise release readiness standards
- Design and implement a maturity-based release model that enables 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 that embed:
- Automated security and compliance controls
- Quality thresholds and testing gates
- Deployment safety mechanisms (canary, progressive rollout, automated rollback)
- Automated release evidence collection
- Encode governance standards as executable mechanisms rather than documentation or review boards
- Ensure solutions scale consistently across dozens of systems without bespoke customization
- Own and oversee existing CAB and release workflows during the transformation period
- Systematically eliminate recurring manual approval steps through engineered solutions
- Deliver a two-year roadmap that transitions legacy governance mechanisms to automated equivalents as applications sunset
- Direct contractor efforts aligned to platform and governance outcomes
- Drive cross-team adoption of standardized pipelines and maturity thresholds
- Influence engineering, AppSec, QA, and Cloud Operations stakeholders through working software and measurable outcomes
- Partner with leadership to align release standards with risk tolerance and operational resilience goals
- Analyze release-related incidents and systemic failure patterns
- Convert recurring release pain points into automation, guardrails, or elimination
- Use telemetry and DORA metrics to guide prioritization and validate impact
Skills
- 8+ years designing or operating enterprise-scale CI/CD and release systems
- Demonstrated experience transforming governance-heavy or approval-driven processes into automated mechanisms
- Proven 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
- Experience modernizing or replacing CAB models
- Experience in federated DevOps or platform organizations
- Experience building AI-assisted release readiness or incident automation workflows
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Helm, containerization, and observability tooling
Company Overview
Risepoint partners with universities to create online degree programs and offers recruitment marketing and admissions services. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://risepoint.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Risepoint has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 3 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.