Description

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end release governance for GCP platform and onboarding initiatives, including release planning, change approvals, go/no-go decisions, rollback procedures, and hypercare support.
• Define and enforce quality gates for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform changes, including test strategies, regression testing coverage, environment promotion criteria, and peer review standards.
• Lead release readiness activities and post-release validation, including cutover planning, smoke testing, monitoring verification, and incident coordination during release windows.
• Establish and maintain standards for release documentation and evidence collection, including change records, test results, approvals, and deployment traceability aligned with compliance requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functional dependencies across IAM, networking, security, compliance, platform engineering, and application teams, ensuring timely decision-making and issue resolution.
• Analyze recurring release issues, identify process gaps, perform root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement through corrective actions and automation.
• Define operational handoff processes, including runbooks, support models, SLAs, and knowledge base documentation to ensure production readiness.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of experience in Release Management, Release Governance, Testing, or Change Management.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments.
• Expertise in release planning, testing governance, quality assurance, and deployment controls.
• Experience managing releases in regulated enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), change management, and audit/compliance requirements.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platform rollouts and large-scale onboarding programs.
• Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and release automation.
• Background in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience supporting contract-to-hire engagements and enterprise transformation initiatives

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree