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Temp to Hire Identity Access Management Consultant
Location: Jersey City, NJ ~ 100 % Onsite
Duration: 9 months
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.
As an Identity Management Contractor, you will be responsible for:
- Implementing and maintaining identity management solutions to ensure secure and efficient access control.
- Configure and manage identity management systems to support user authentication and authorization.
- Implement identity and access management (IAM) policies and procedures in accordance with project requirements.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to identity management systems and processes.
- Conduct regular audits and assessments to ensure compliance with security standards and best practices.
- Develop and maintain documentation for identity management processes and configurations.
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.
- 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.
REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- GCP, Testing - (10 years’ experience)
- Release Management - 7 years
- Release Management
- Testing
Salary : $85 - $89