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Accountable for spearheading the organization's cloud governance and security posture management across the Azure and Microsoft 365 environment, ensuring sustained compliance with the organization's cloud security benchmark and the continuous reduction of cloud-based risk. This position owns the design and ongoing maintenance of cloud-relevant policies, standards, and configuration baselines, and partners with cloud engineering to enforce secure configurations, remediate posture findings, and validate corrective actions. Provides targeted oversight of cloud-focused risk assessments, advises on governance priorities, and reports on cloud compliance and posture progress to leadership, advancing the organization's overall information security and compliance posture.

Job Description

Summary

Accountable for spearheading the organization's cloud governance and security posture management across the Azure and Microsoft 365 environment, ensuring sustained compliance with the organization's cloud security benchmark and the continuous reduction of cloud-based risk. This position owns the design and ongoing maintenance of cloud-relevant policies, standards, and configuration baselines, and partners with cloud engineering to enforce secure configurations, remediate posture findings, and validate corrective actions. Provides targeted oversight of cloud-focused risk assessments, advises on governance priorities, and reports on cloud compliance and posture progress to leadership, advancing the organization's overall information security and compliance posture.

Job Duties

• Provide strategic vision and roadmap for cloud governance and compliance across the Azure and Microsoft 365 environment, aligning cloud GRC activities with organizational objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Design and continually enhance cloud-related information security policies, standards, and configuration baselines, including processes to manage and document exceptions.
• Provide oversight of targeted risk assessments that support cloud governance and compliance objectives, synthesizing findings to inform leadership on cloud security posture and emerging cloud-based risks.
• Spearhead cloud governance and security posture management across the Azure and Microsoft 365 environment, ensuring sustained compliance with the organization's cloud security benchmark and recommending control settings to restrict insecure configurations.
• Partner with cloud engineering to remediate posture findings, validate corrective actions, and report on remediation progress and overall cloud security posture to leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, particularly cloud engineering, to integrate cloud governance, security, and compliance requirements into operational policies, processes, and platform standards.
• Mentor and coach GRC analysts supporting cloud governance and compliance activities, fostering operational excellence and professional growth.
• Develop dashboards and data pipelines to measure and communicate cloud compliance, posture progress, and related governance metrics to senior stakeholders

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math discipline or
• High School Diploma/GED and preferred certifications.
• 7 years related work experience

Physical Demands
Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Work Shift
Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type
Regular

Employee Entity
Thomas Jefferson University
Primary Location Address
1100 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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