Principal Platform & Release Governance Engineer - Academic Partnerships

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.

Risepoint'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.

The Impact You Will Make

You will define what "release ready" means at Risepoint and engineer that definition into automation.

This 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.

Your success is measured by systemic change: reduced manual governance, improved deployment safety, and durable automation that scales across the engineering organization.

How You Will Bring Our Mission to Life

Enterprise Release Governance Architecture (CAB 2.0)

• 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

Platform & Pipeline Engineering

• 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

Automation of Transitional Processes

• 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 t