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 are a curious and keen learner who thrives on enhancing your (and our) practices and knowledge.

As a Cybersecurity Engineer III at Rise8, you will: 

• Lead and contribute to incident response efforts, including detection, investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident analysis.
• Conduct root cause analysis of security incidents and contribute to continuous improvement of response processes.
• Help secure cloud-based environments by implementing and configuring native security solutions across AWS and Azure environments.
• Support the application of Continuous RMF practices by assisting in the automation of control implementation and evidence collection.
• Assist in automating the provisioning and configuration of IT environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Deploy and maintain security measures like firewalls, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners, encryption services, and ICAM solutions.
• Help secure containerized and large-scale cloud production systems by applying container security best practices and monitoring runtime security.
• Apply cybersecurity concepts across threats, vulnerabilities, encryption, boundary defense, and risk management practices.
• Support identity and access management initiatives by implementing least-privilege models and cross-account role configurations.
• Create and maintain security documentation, including network diagrams, data flow diagrams, and operational manuals.
• Enforce cloud-native security best practices using frameworks such as AWS’s Well-Architected Security Pillar.
• Collaborate across teams to support the integration of Zero Trust principles and Risk Management Framework (RMF) requirements.
• Apply security controls aligned with RMF, FedRAMP, and DISA CC SRG standards for IL4/5/6 environments.
• Collaborate with development and platform teams to integrate security practices into lean and agile software delivery pipelines.
• Coordinate security incident investigations, document findings and timelines, and lead response efforts across internal and external teams.
• Develop and maintain IR documentation including playbooks, runbooks, and post-mortem reports.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative environment that supports your professional and technical growth.

Qualifications 

• 3–6 years of experience in cloud, cybersecurity, or platform engineering roles, with exposure to securing cloud and on-premises environments.