Cloud Governance Analyst (Information Technology Analyst 3)

New Jersey Courts; Trenton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 91,466 - 128,573; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

New Jersey Judiciary seeks an IT professional to join the Cloud Governance and IAM team. The role designs and supports multi-cloud and hybrid enterprise systems, managing AWS, Azure/Entra and GCP to ensure secure access and compliance.

The position emphasizes policy design, identity governance, cost control, and risk management with hybrid work up to three days remote. Regular on-site presence is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or related field and three years of professional IT experience.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud governance policies across AWS, Azure/Entra and GCP.
• Knowledge of identity and access management, MFA and least-privilege principles.
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance, risk assessment and auditing in cloud environments.
• Ability to translate business requirements into cost-controlled cloud governance strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain multi-cloud governance framework across AWS, Azure/Entra and GCP.
• Design and enforce cloud policies for access, networking, encryption and tagging.
• Define identity, roles, MFA and entitlement review processes; oversee privileged access controls.
• Map regulatory and internal requirements to cloud controls; run continuous compliance assessments.
• Monitor budgets, implement guardrails and optimize cloud costs; plan rightsizing and reservations.
• Define centralized logging and metrics strategy; ensure secure log access and retention.
• Maintain an approved-services list and reusable templates to speed safe adoption.

Skills

Cloud governance

IAM & access governance

Security & compliance

Cost governance

Monitoring & observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Job description

When you come to work for New Jersey Judiciary you will join an 8500-member strong TEAM that operates with the highest standards of independence, integrity, fairness and quality service. You will be engaged with work that has purpose, meaning and makes a difference in lives of the public we serve. We work hard every day to build the public’s trust and confidence in our court system, which includes issues such as bail reform, marijuana decriminalization and recovery court. Whether it be in a courtroom, an administrative office, a courthouse training room, an IT office or in the field, our Judiciary workforce is improving the lives of countless individuals and families every day. We honor the dignity and individualism of each member of our organization while fostering professionalism and continuous improvement in our work.

Description

The salary range for this position is $91,466.95 to $128,573.18 for Schedule A, and $91,466.95 to $122,144.51 for Schedule B. For newly hired individuals, the starting salary will normally be at the minimum of the salary range. For current Judiciary employees, salary upon promotion or advancement will be an increase of 5% of base salary, not to exceed the maximum of the range, or the minimum salary of the band/level, whichever is greater.Judiciary employees hired prior to June 3, 2014, are considered Schedule A. Newly hired individuals, and Judiciary employees hired on or after June 3, 2014, are considered Schedule B.

The Judiciary offers a strong opportunity for growth. The New Jersey Judiciary Information Technology Office is seeking a dynamic and highly technical individual to join Cloud Governance and IAM group to design, implement and support multi-cloud and hybrid enterprise systems. The selected individual will be responsible for managing and supporting the Judiciary’s AWS, Azure/Entra and GCP environments to ensure secure access across all systems and in compliance with industry standards. This position will work closely with cross-functional teams to implement and maintain best practices in multi-cloud governance.

REMOTE WORK

The Judiciary currently offers a hybrid work schedule, and this position may qualify for up to 3 days of remote work outside of Judiciary buildings. To participate in this program, in addition to installing a multifactor authentication app on your phone or tablet, you will be required to have high speed home internet access.

• Develop and maintain multi-cloud governance framework: define policies, standards, and baseline configurations that apply across AWS, Azure, GCP (and any other clouds) to ensure consistent security, compliance, cost control, and operational practices.
• Cloud policy design and enforcement: create access, identity, network, encryption, tagging, and resource lifecycle policies; implement enforcement via cloud-native controls (IAM, SCPs, Blueprints, Organization Policies)
• Identity & access governance: define role models, least-privilege access, MFA/conditional access rules, identity federation, and lifecycle processes; oversee privileged access controls and periodic entitlement reviews.
• Compliance & risk management: map regulatory and internal requirements to cloud controls, run continuous compliance assessments, coordinate audits, remediate findings, and maintain evidence and reporting.
• Cost governance & optimization: monitor budgets, and implement guardrails to prevent runaway spend (budgets, API limits), and coordinate rightsizing/reservation strategies.
• Monitoring, observability & logging governance: define centralized logging/metrics/tracing strategy, retention policies, logging formats, and secure log aggregation and access controls.
• Service catalog & approved patterns: maintain an approved-services list and reusable templates/landing zones to speed safe adoption and reduce shadow IT.
• Roadmap & policy lifecycle: maintain a governance roadmap aligned to business and cloud provider changes; review and update policies regularly.

Regular and predictable physical presence at the worksite is an essential function of this position.

Qualifications

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree in a field related to computer science, information technology or the area to which the applicant is applying, such as information systems, human-computer interaction, interactive media, software engineering, computer networking, business analytics, data analytics and/or cybersecurity and three years of professional experience in:

• analyzing, designing, programming, troubleshooting, resolving technical problems, testing, defining business requirements, training and/or installing computer systems applications;
• planning, acquiring, installing and implementing telecommunications facilities and services, wide area networks, or local area networks;
• generating and maintaining system software;
• business analysis which may include defining and gathering business and functional requirements, analyzing and validating data and/or documenting test plans;
• business analytics;
• data analytics.

Substitution

Applicants who do not possess the required education may substitute additional paraprofessional and/or professional IT technical experience or experience related to the area to which the applicant is applying on a year for year basis with one year of such experience being equal to 30 semester hour credits.

A bachelor’s degree in any field from an accredited college or university and one year of additional paraprofessional and/or professional IT technical experience or experience related to the area to which the applicant is applying may be substituted for the required education.

An associate degree from an accredited college or university, in a field related to computer science, information technology or the area to which the applicant is applying, such as information systems, human-computer interaction, interactive media, software engineering, computer networking, business analytics, data analytics and/or cybersecurity and two years of additional paraprofessional and/or professional IT technical experience or experience related to the area to which the applicant is applying may be substituted for the required education.

An associate degree in any field from an accredited college or university and three years of additional paraprofessional and/or professional IT technical experience or experience related to the area to which the applicant is applying may be substituted for the required education.

A master’s degree from an accredited college or university in a field related to computer science, information technology or the area to which the applicant is applying, such as information systems, human-computer interaction, interactive media, software engineering, computer networking, business analytics, data analytics and/or cybersecurity may be substituted for the required education OR one year of experience.

Individuals who have successfully completed internships within the Central Office Information Technology Office; ATCSU; Data Analytics, Research and Statistics Office; and/or the Information Security Unit may substitute their experience as interns for the required professional experience with one such year of intern experience being equivalent to six months of professional experience.

Education Note

Degrees conferred outside of the United States must be evaluated by a recognized evaluation service. (See https://naces.org/members/ )

Supplemental Information

Physical Ability

For some positions, applicants must have the ability to perform work which requires climbing and prolonged standing, stretching, bending and reaching. The selected candidate must be able to frequently lift and carry supplies weighing from 30 to 50 pounds and, occasionally, materials weighing up to 75 pounds.

Driver's License

Appointees will be required to possess a driver’s license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.

Authorization to Work

US citizenship is not required. Selected candidate must be authorized to work in the US according to Department of Homeland Security, US Citizenship and Immigration Services regulations.

Special Note

Newly hired employees must agree to a thorough background check that will include fingerprinting. All data received will be kept in strict confidence except to inform the individual of the findings and what action will be taken as a result of this information.

Residency Law

In accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14-7 (L. 2011, Chapter 70), the 'New Jersey First Act,' all persons newly hired by the Judiciary within one year must establish, and then maintain, principal residence in the State of New Jersey. Any person may request an exemption from that requirement from the Employee Residency Review Committee in the Department of Labor & Workforce Development on the basis of either hardship or employer critical need.

The Judiciary of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action

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