Your Dream. Our Team.

About Rise8

We’re transforming the United States Government and we know that takes a dream team. 

We believe customer experience starts with employee experience, so we take care of our employees. We offer competitive pay and benefits, invest in employee growth, and offer a culture you can’t find anywhere else.

At Rise8, we continuously achieve unreached heights through next-level tech, and on-the-level collaboration. Together, we create continuous impact. We turn breakdowns into breakthroughs, make small steps into giant leaps, and deliver game-changing products through culture-changing process.

We pair Risers with their customer counterparts and practice pairing at every moment to elevate people and teams and deliver results fast and forever. We work in small teams and rotate between them frequently so that we are able to meet new challenges and explore new ideas.

Our methodology is about experimenting and learning, and our culture is empowering. We subscribe to an ethos of kindness. We make a point to bring empathy to each and every project and are guided by a promise and a purpose: to deploy critical outcomes to prod in order to drive relentless progress. Not just an idea. But an outcome. A better world. A world where every day, fewer bad things happen because of bad software.

Rise8 is certified as a Great Place to Work with 100% of employees saying they love working here.

About You

  • You want to make tomorrow better than today. 
  • You have a passion for high-speed security and you care about risk management over compliance.
  • You believe the biggest vulnerability in any system is time. You live to securely reduce cycle time.
  • You enjoy daily decision making and real product delivery.
  • You help ensure project success and client satisfaction. 
  • You enjoy collaborative teams, pairing with team members, and inviting your clients to participate. 
  • You like to work alongside, and learn from, lean and agile leaders. 
  • You are a creative problem solver who is comfortable with uncertainty.
  • You’re a curious and keen learner who thrives on enhancing your (and our) practices and knowledge.

As an Engineering Portfolio Lead at Rise8, you will: 

  • Identify the right product initiatives and gain stakeholder alignment on goals, success criteria, and scope
  • Maintain a healthy and transparent backlog of project work
  • Ensure initiatives focus on delivering business value to reduce waste before kickoff
  • Allocate talent and teams to the appropriate initiatives to maximize their impact while balancing growth opportunities and maintaining product reliability
  • Facilitate and train others on key product kickoff and alignment ceremonies (D&F, Inception)
  • Grow the practice and excellence of the Client Way product methodologies works for my organization’s environment
  • Keep ongoing alignment and transparency by facilitating and promoting frequent and quality team<>stakeholder communication 
  • Foster practice innovation within the teams so the practice can grow and respond to change
  • Improve team performance by working with teams to assess health and coach for improvement
  • Ensure product teams can continuously deliver value by ensuring they have access to platform, automated CI/CD tooling, and a clear path to production
  • Raise and advocate teams’ platform requests to the appropriate ops teams
  • Promote, educate, and demonstrate to colleagues the value of cloud native development to grow my practice’s influence
  • Ensure teams can easily support their applications through access to production 

 

Qualifications 

Qualifications for Engineering Portfolio Lead

  • Minimum 10 years of experience supporting data engineering, systems architecture, and systems engineering environments using technologies such as SQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra), Hadoop, Spark, and Redshift.
  • Minimum 4 years of experience leading project teams or Portfolio lead experience
  • Strong background in data engineering, systems architecture, and systems engineering principles with a commitment to staying updated with industry trends and tools such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience in evaluating engineers, creating skills matrices, and driving talent development while successfully managing engineering teams, offering technical guidance, and fostering innovation with tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet.
  • Understanding of the software development lifecycle, including experience with microservices architecture (Spring Boot, Istio) and APIs (REST, GraphQL).
  • Ability to formulate and execute a technical strategy aligning with business goals, leveraging CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps.
  • Experience in guiding engineering practices, especially pair programming, alongside excellent communication skills crucial for collaborating with diverse teams and stakeholders.

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Active Top Secret Security Clearance 
  • Possession of certifications from major cloud providers such as Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure. 
  • Master's degree in Engineering or Engineering Management, with comparable industry experience, showcasing a strong academic and practical foundation.
  • Proficiency in multiple programming languages, reflecting a versatile skill set and adaptability.
  • Strong combination of software engineering and DevOps experience, enabling effective support across various technical domains.

 

Salary 

The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $156,696 - $235,044 regardless of final candidate location within the United States. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity. 

Benefits 

  • Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce 
  • Premium Insurance: We cover up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium, depending on pay band. We also cover 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.
  • Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay.
  • Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 10 Federal holidays, your birthday, jury duty, and bereavement.
  • Education & Training: Accrued budget of up to $3,500 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials.
  • Home Office Budget: $750 annually for home office expenses including furniture and/or technology equipment
  • Wellness Budget: To encourage and support a well-rounded healthy lifestyle, we cover 100% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year.
  • Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro and multi-port adapter.

All of Rise8’s work in this area is with Federal Government customers that require our employees involved with their projects be U.S. citizens. As such, this role requires U.S. citizenship. If hired, you would also be required to go through a background investigation.


Rise8 is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider you for this role regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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