Cloud Governance Analyst (Information Technology Analyst 3)

About the role

The New Jersey Judiciary Information Technology Office is seeking a dynamic and highly technical individual to join the Cloud Governance and IAM group. This position will manage and support the Judiciary’s AWS, Azure/Entra, and GCP environments, ensuring secure access across all systems and compliance with industry standards. The role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to implement and maintain best practices in multi-cloud governance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain multi-cloud governance framework: Define policies, standards, and baseline configurations that apply across AWS, Azure, GCP (and any other clouds).
• Create access, identity, network, encryption, tagging, and resource lifecycle policies; implement enforcement via cloud-native controls (IAM, SCPs, Blueprints, Organization Policies).
• Define role models, least-privilege access, MFA/conditional access rules, identity federation, and lifecycle processes; oversee privileged access controls and periodic entitlement reviews.
• Map regulatory and internal requirements to cloud controls, run continuous compliance assessments, coordinate audits, remediate findings, and maintain evidence and reporting.
• Monitor budgets, implement guardrails to prevent runaway spend (budgets, API limits), and coordinate rightsizing/reservation strategies.
• Define centralized logging/metrics/tracing strategy, retention policies, logging formats, and secure log aggregation and access controls.
• Maintain an approved-services list and reusable templates/landing zones to speed safe adoption and reduce shadow IT.
• Maintain a governance roadmap aligned to business and cloud provider changes; review and update policies regularly.

Requirements

• 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 cybersecurity.
• Three years of professional experience in analyzing, designing, programming, troubleshooting, resolving technical problems, testing, defining business requirements, training, or installing computer systems applications.
• 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.
• 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 cybersecurity may be substituted for the required education.

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 cybersecurity.
• Three years of professional experience in analyzing, designing, programming, troubleshooting, resolving technical problems, testing, defining business requirements, training, or installing computer systems applications.
• 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.
• 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 cybersecurity may be substituted for the required education.

Skills

• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with cloud governance frameworks and policies.
• Knowledge of IAM, SCPs, Blueprints, and Organization Policies.
• Ability to map regulatory and internal requirements to cloud controls.
• Experience with continuous compliance assessments and audit coordination.
• Proficiency in monitoring budgets and implementing guardrails to prevent runaway spend.
• Experience with centralized logging, metrics, and tracing strategies.
• Ability to maintain an approved-services list and reusable templates/landing zones.
• Experience with developing and updating governance roadmaps.

Benefits

The New Jersey Judiciary offers a strong opportunity for growth and career advancement. The position comes with a competitive salary range of $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.

Pay

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.

Schedule

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.