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

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