IT Software Asset Manager and Vulnerability Analyst
Duration: 6 months, right to hire
Location: 1200 North 7th Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102
Position Overview
The IT Software Asset Manager and Vulnerability Analyst leads the IT Software Asset Management team, working independently to manage the agency's hardware inventory and software asset portfolio while remediating associated risks and vulnerabilities. This role includes software licensing management, spend optimization, risk analysis, and vulnerability management using various asset management tools and data feeds. The successful candidate will lead remediation efforts, provide executive-level reports, and drive risk mitigation and key business decisions.
Primary Responsibilities
- Streamline software asset management to ensure compliance with vendor contracts and optimize licensing structures.
- Advise on software product updates and licensing impacts to costs and structures.
- Maintain accurate records of the software portfolio and hardware inventory throughout the asset lifecycle.
- Lead data collection from multiple sources and input into asset management tools for inventory tracking and analysis.
- Perform compliance analysis and remediate licensing issues to prevent financial risks and support optimization.
- Create executive-level reports and dashboards to provide an overview of IT hardware and software assets for key business decisions.
- Conduct IT asset inventory reviews and validate the accuracy of records with asset owners/teams.
- Analyze and update systems due to new or changing IT asset procurement agreements, licenses, and contract renewals.
- Process IT asset management-related service requests, manage software usage, and mitigate over-deployed software.
- Provide timely responses to end-of-life, patch management, risk assessments, audits, and regulatory demands.
- Create and maintain IT asset documentation, process procedures, and ensure audit readiness and business continuity.
- Evaluate and update internal controls and policies to reduce audit findings, regulatory sanctions, financial loss, or damage to the agency’s reputation.
- Identify vulnerabilities, analyze risks, and develop strategies to enhance system security.
- Support the Enterprise Security Office (ESO) with Nessus scanning and configuration needs.
- Build and maintain roadmaps for the Vulnerability Management Workflow.
- Participate in external/internal audit reviews and compliance inquiries with written and verbal contributions.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, and 2-4 years of experience with enterprise asset management applications/tools, IT contract management, IT operations, and/or compliance.
- Proven experience maintaining lifecycle asset inventory records, resolving licensing compliance deviations, and publishing audit and optimization reports.
- Experience with vulnerability management tools, such as Tenable-Nessus.
- Strong experience with MS Office products, SharePoint, and IT asset management tools/concepts.
Skills and Qualifications
Required: Strong communication, analytical, critical thinking, and organizational skills.
- Experience with software contract interpretation, licensing compliance, and asset management reporting.
- Ability to create reports and dashboards for compliance and audit requests.
- Ability to manage service ticket queues and maintain business processes and procedure
Thanks
rehana@panzersolutions.com