Release Governance Manager (GCP)

Role Summary

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end release governance for GCP platform and onboarding changes (release calendar, change approvals, go/no-go, rollback criteria, hypercare).

• Define and enforce quality gates for IaC and platform changes (test strategy, regression coverage, environment promotion rules, peer review standards).

• Run release readiness and post-release validation (cutover checklists, smoke tests, monitoring verification, incident triage during release windows).

• Establish standards for release documentation and evidence capture (change records, test results, approvals, deployment traceability) aligned to control requirements.

• Capture and manage dependencies across IAM, networking, security/compliance, platform engineering, and application teams; drive timely decisioning and escalation.

• Identify recurring release defects and process gaps; lead continuous improvement (root cause, corrective actions, automation of checks).

• Define operational handoffs (runbooks, support model, SLAs, knowledge base) and ensure teams are production-ready.