Cloud Security, Expert

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1



Job Details

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

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. 

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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