Lead Google Cloud Platform Engineer (Testing, Release Management)

Role         : Lead Google Cloud Platform Engineer (Testing, Release Management)
Location : Jersey City, NJ (Onsite)

Role summary
Lead engineering governance for a regulated, enterprise-scale Google Cloud Platform 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 Google Cloud Platform platform and onboarding changes (release calendar, change approvals, go/no-go, rollback criteria, hyper care).
• 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.
• Coordinate 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.