Identity Access Management Consultant

Job Description

Company: Motion Recruitment

Location: Jersey City, US

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

Source: LinkedIn