Strategic Cloud Release Program Manager

Lorven Technologies, Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Part time

Job summary

Lorven Technologies, Inc. in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager for a contract role. Hybrid arrangement: 3 days in office, ~2 days remote.

You will own end-to-end release lifecycles, coordinate multiple release trains, and enforce gates for quality, security, and compliance. The role requires extensive experience in enterprise release management, SDLC/DevOps, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), with strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

• 10 years of relevant experience, including substantial experience in enterprise release management and technical program delivery.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex, cross-functional, multi-team technical programs.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, version control, and release governance.
• Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong technical fluency with the ability to assess system-level dependencies and business impact.
• Proven ability to influence and drive execution across distributed teams without direct authority.
• Excellent stakeholder, executive, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong risk management, planning, reporting, data management, and documentation capabilities.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with business intelligence or reporting tools.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments with changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end release lifecycle across assigned product and commercialization portfolios, including planning, scheduling, readiness, deployment, and rollout strategy.
• Build and maintain integrated release calendars, manage cross-team dependencies, and coordinate multiple release trains.
• Establish and enforce quality, compliance, and security gates, supported by accurate release documentation and communications.
• Identify, track, and mitigate release risks; maintain rollback and contingency plans for critical releases.
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement of automation, CI/CD tooling, and deployment pipelines.
• Lead multi-quarter, cross-system initiatives across engineering teams (branding, terminology, tech refresh).
• Develop and maintain system inventories, migration trackers, roadmaps, dependency maps, and decision logs.
• Run program operating cadences with status and risk reviews and stakeholder forums.
• Partner with Engineering and Finance on cloud cost tracking, forecasting, allocation, and monthly variance reporting.
• Maintain workforce rosters, headcount reporting, and hiring pipeline updates.
• Coordinate quarterly and annual product planning processes and operating mechanisms.
• Perform internal tools and process compliance checks and drive follow-up actions.
• Create and track purchase orders and statements of work for engineering contractors.
• Monitor contract terms, renewals, expirations, invoices, and discrepancies.
• Support vendor onboarding and offboarding activities.

Skills

PMP

ITIL

SAFe RTE

SDLC

Agile

DevOps

CI/CD

Version control

Release governance

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

CloudHealth

Apptio

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Lorven Technologies, Inc. in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager for a contract role. Hybrid arrangement: 3 days in office, ~2 days remote.

You will own end-to-end release lifecycles, coordinate multiple release trains, and enforce gates for quality, security, and compliance. The role requires extensive experience in enterprise release management, SDLC/DevOps, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), with strong communication and stakeholder management skills.