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.
- 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.
- Be the hands-on technical expert responsible for finding and helping to realize cloud cost savings.
- Dive deep into billing and usage data to identify waste, work directly with engineering teams to implement optimizations, and build the dashboards and reports that provide visibility to the entire organization.
- Possess deep cloud platform knowledge and a passion for data-driven problem-solving
- Perform detailed analysis of cloud billing and usage data to identify cost-saving opportunities (e.g., rightsizing, storage tier changes, idle resources).
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to provide stakeholders with clear visibility into cloud spend and trends.
- Work collaboratively with application teams to validate and implement optimization recommendations.
- Write scripts to automate the identification of untagged resources, cost anomalies, or other waste.
- Serve as the technical expert on cloud cost management tools and best practices for a specific cloud provider (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management).
- Support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption to ensure cost optimization and tagging policies are enforced automatically (Terraform preferred).
- Collaborate with platform engineers to design cost-efficient architectures for Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and cloud-native services.
- Take operational responsibility for cost optimization initiatives across large-scale production systems.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in a cloud engineering or operations role.
- Must-Have: Deep technical expertise with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including their native cost management tools.
- Strong data analysis skills and proficiency with tools like SQL and Excel; experience with visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI) is a plus.
- Proficiency in administering Azure GovCloud or AWS GovCloud environments.
- Experience with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, AKS, or EKS) and cost considerations of running containerized workloads.
- Familiarity with networking concepts and their cost impact (e.g., data egress, load balancers, DNS, SSL, NAT).
- Experience troubleshooting operating systems and applications to identify inefficiencies or cost drivers.
- Proficiency in a scripting language, preferably Python, for data analysis and automation.
- Practical experience implementing and enforcing resource tagging policies.
The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $163,121 - $203,901 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
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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