Rise8

Platform Engineer

• Create and implement automated configuration and deployment processes to enhance the performance, accessibility, and ease of management of the platform and its related services.
• Establish and manage administrator and service accounts, while also maintaining accurate system documentation and effectively resolving technical issues.
• Utilize scripting tools to craft self-service capabilities within the Platform as a Service (PaaS), fostering a seamless developer experience for development teams.
• Collaborate closely with developers to diagnose and troubleshoot problems, ensuring smooth operations.
• Take on the operational responsibility for the services under your team's ownership.
• Design and implement solutions for large-volume, long-term cold data storage, including Tier 2 on-prem to Tier 3 cloud migrations, with large capacity expectations.
• Integrate with existing and emerging data lakes by establishing and managing Authorizations to Connect (ATCs).
• Support mission data access, archive, and playback solutions in collaboration with partners ensuring program alignment and modernization baselines.
• Engineer resilient, secure, multi-site cold storage solutions at Secret-level classification, optimized for infrequent access and data older than one year.
• Thrive in an environment that nurtures your personal development and growth.
• Continuously enhance the product, delivering software that resonates positively with users and meets their needs effectively.

Cleared Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud & Cold Storage Ops

Security Engineer

• As a Senior Automation Security Engineer at Rise8, you will: Focus on making the client's security and IT operations faster, more efficient, and more reliable through automation.
• Be the hands-on expert for Splunk SOAR, designing and building automated "playbooks" that orchestrate responses to incidents.
• Your work will directly reduce manual toil, shorten incident resolution times from hours to seconds, and embed security into the fabric of IT operations.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain automation playbooks within Splunk SOAR (or a similar SOAR platform).
• Write robust, maintainable Python scripts to create custom automation logic and integrate with third-party tools.
• Utilize REST APIs to connect the SOAR platform with a wide range of IT and security systems (e.g., ticketing systems, firewalls, threat intelligence feeds).
• Work with the security and IT operations teams to identify and prioritize manual processes that are ripe for automation.
• Ensure all automated workflows are built securely and adhere to client compliance requirements.

Senior Automation Security Engineer

• 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 are a curious and keen learner who thrives on enhancing your (and our) practices and knowledge.
• As a Senior AIOps Platform Engineer at Rise8, you will:
• Specialize in transforming raw machine data into predictive, actionable intelligence.
• Be the hands-on expert for designing and implementing our client's next-generation monitoring platform using Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
• Your work will be critical in moving the client from a reactive to a proactive operational model, helping them predict and prevent outages before they impact critical services.
• Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and maintain service health models and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within Splunk ITSI.
• Onboard new data sources into Splunk, including parsing, extraction, and transformation of data.
• Develop advanced dashboards and \"glass tables\" to provide real-time visibility for both technical teams and executive leadership.
• Configure and tune ITSI's machine learning and anomaly detection features to identify and predict service degradations.
• Work closely with application owners to map their services and dependencies, creating a true end-to-end view of service health.
• Qualifications
• 6+ years of experience with a major log aggregation and monitoring platform, with a strong preference for Splunk.
• Must-Have: Deep, hands-on experience with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) or a comparable AIOps platform (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace).
• Expert-level proficiency in Splunk's Search Processing Language (SPL) or equivalent query languages.
• Demonstrated experience in a large-scale IT operations, infrastructure engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role.
• Proficiency in administering cloud environments (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Skilled in developing automation solutions using scripting languages to streamline recurring tasks.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Proficiency in troubleshooting challenges using the Linux/Unix command line interface.
• Expertise in container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes.
• Proficient use of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools, with a focus on Terraform.
• Possession of recognized Professional Certifications such as RHCE, Linux+, MCSA, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Security+, CISSP, and CCNA.
• Background in DevOps automation practices.
• Salary
• The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $163,121 - $244,681 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 on our base health plan, 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, 11 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 and Merch: We offer $750 per year for home office technology and equipment as well as $100 per year for Rise8 merch from our Swag Store.
• 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. Or Rise8 is part of the the Life Time Corporate Partner program. In lieu of your $500 annual wellness benefit, you can instead get a $75 monthly credit towards a Life Time membership ($900 annual benefit).
• Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro

Senior AIOps Platform Engineer

Full-stack Engineer

• Work with clients who have never before taken part in design thinking, test-driven-development (TDD), paired programming, continuous-release deployment, backlog management, or even interacted with the user they provide software to.
• Teach the why behind each of these practices, be flexible to client preferences, and discover new tools that will enable your customer to understand the value that comes with agile software development.
• Be responsible for learning how your client likes to learn, how they like to receive feedback, and what ubiquitous language they use so you can speak in terms that resonate with them.
• Learn, teach, and change your approach constantly to best collaborate towards a new way of thinking about engineering.
• Pair with the customer’s developers and engineers to teach them how to develop and deliver user stories that provide business value, technical feasibility, and user-driven functionality.
• Deliver functionality by developing working software and ensure a reliable software solution.
• Ensure that development is delivered week over week and continuously gauge feedback from real users in real time.
• Pairing with military service people and other developers to deliver value in real time.
• Responsible for building and testing software solutions and ensuring the team builds upon what we provide not only technically but what we can teach through our practices.
• Work with a balanced team in mind while building software that fits the user needs, business objectives, and stakeholder vision so the team can quickly make informed engineering decisions based on validated assumptions.

Rise8

Cleared Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud & Cold Storage Ops

Senior Automation Security Engineer

Senior AIOps Platform Engineer

Software Engineer III

Senior Software Engineer