Reporting:
Engineering Manager, with day-to-day direction from GitHub Governance Architect and ALM Technical Lead
Target Start Date:
August 2026
Time Zone:
3–4 hours daily overlap with US Eastern Time
About the Role
Our client is formalizing governance of its GitHub Enterprise Cloud workplace, covering
80+ organizations and thousands of users
.
The successful candidate will independently drive GitHub governance initiatives from
policy design and planning through implementation, enterprise-wide rollout, and compliance verification
.
This is a senior technical role requiring strong ownership, sound technical judgment, and the ability to execute initiatives with minimal supervision.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive GitHub governance initiatives across the enterprise.
- Own initiatives from policy design through implementation and compliance verification.
- Plan and execute enterprise-wide configuration changes.
- Implement policies, rulesets, and security controls across
80+ organizations
.
- Lead credential remediation programs and execute remediation activities.
- Communicate with organization owners and track remediation progress.
- Manage the governed change pipeline.
- Design, test, stage, and roll out configuration changes with proper rollback procedures.
- Drive IAM enforcement initiatives including
SSO, SCIM, and team synchronization
.
- Manage outside-collaborator governance.
- Identify governance gaps and proactively propose solutions.
- Manage
ServiceNow (SNOW)
tickets related to GitHub services.
- Maintain compliance documentation and audit evidence.
- Automate repetitive governance tasks using
Python/Bash
.
- Participate in on-call support for GitHub platform incidents.