Hello,
This is Deep, Senior Technical Recruiter at Zeal Hire. After reviewing your background, I believe your experience aligns exceptionally well with a position we are currently seeking to fill.
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Job Description
Job Title: GCP Release Management- (No AWS or Azure)
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Experience Level: 8+ years
Visas: USC/GC only
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Role Summary
We are seeking a GCP Release Management / Testing Lead to lead engineering governance for a regulated, enterprise-scale GCP rollout. This role will own the release management operating model, testing and quality gates, and evidence discipline to ensure platform and onboarding changes are deployed safely, predictably, and in an audit-ready manner. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership, release governance, and quality assurance experience in complex enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
Own end-to-end release governance for GCP platform and onboarding changes, including the release calendar, change approvals, go/no-go decisions, rollback criteria, and hypercare.
Define and enforce quality gates for IaC and platform changes, including test strategy, regression coverage, environment promotion rules, and peer review standards.
Run release readiness and post-release validation, including cutover checklists, smoke tests, monitoring verification, and incident triage during release windows.
Establish standards for release documentation and evidence capture, including change records, test results, approvals, and deployment traceability aligned to control requirements.
Coordinate dependencies across IAM, networking, security/compliance, platform engineering, and application teams, while driving timely decision-making and escalation.
Identify recurring release defects and process gaps, then lead continuous improvement through root cause analysis, corrective actions, and automation of checks.
Define operational handoffs, including runbooks, support model, SLAs, and knowledge base content, to ensure teams are production-ready.
Required Qualifications
7+ years of experience in release management, testing, quality engineering, or delivery governance in enterprise environments.
Strong experience with GCP, preferably in regulated or large-scale enterprise settings.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional delivery across multiple teams and manage standards, approvals, and exceptions.
Deep understanding of release governance, test strategy, deployment controls, and audit evidence requirements.
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and escalation skills.
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Kind Regards,
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Deep Patel
Sr. Technical Recruiter
ZealHire Inc.
14 Wall Street 20th Floor | New York, NY 10005
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