Cloud Governance Analyst; Information Technology Analyst

New Jersey Judiciary Information Technology Office

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.

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 OR planning, acquiring, installing and implementing telecommunications facilities and services, wide area networks, or local area networks OR generating and maintaining system software OR business analysis which may include defining and gathering business and functional requirements, analyzing and validating data and/or documenting test plans OR business analytics OR 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,…