Job Description
Lead engineering governance for a regulated, enterprise-scale GCP rollout. Own the release management operating model, testing/quality gates, and evidence discipline to ensure platform and onboarding changes deploy safely, predictably, and audit-ready.
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Own end-to-end release governance for GCP platform and onboarding changes (release calendar, change approvals, go/no-go, rollback criteria, hypercare).
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Define and enforce quality gates for IaC and platform changes (test strategy, regression coverage, environment promotion rules, peer review standards).
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Run release readiness and post-release validation (cutover checklists, smoke tests, monitoring verification, incident triage during release windows).
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Establish standards for release documentation and evidence capture (change records, test results, approvals, deployment traceability) aligned to control requirements.
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Coordinate dependencies across IAM, networking, security/compliance, platform engineering, and application teams; drive timely decisioning and escalation.
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Identify recurring release defects and process gaps; lead continuous improvement (root cause, corrective actions, automation of checks).
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Define operational handoffs (runbooks, support model, SLAs, knowledge base) and ensure teams are production-ready.