Summary
About the Role
Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Asset tracking and inventory management: Maintaining accurate inventory records of all IT assets, including their location, ownership, and status.
2. Asset maintenance and support: Coordinating with all the CIS teams for timely planning the maintenance, upgrades, of IT assets to ensure optimal performance and minimize downtime.
3. Risk mitigation: Assessing and managing risks associated with IT assets, compliance issues, or technology obsolescence. Anticipate reduction of ageing OS / DB / Hardware technology and drive removal of legacy / unsupported OS, DB and Hardware with application management teams via remediation campaigns.
4. License management: Tracking software licenses, ensuring compliance with licensing agreements, and managing license renewals and audits.
5. Cost optimization: Analyzing the total cost of ownership for IT assets and identifying opportunities to reduce costs through efficient lifecycle management practices.
6. Documentation and reporting: Maintaining comprehensive data and be the SPOC for IES CIS teams for all in scope IT assets, and processes, as well as generating regular reports for relevant stakeholders.
7. Execute assigned tasks within given timeframes, prioritize work effectively, and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously.
Required Skills:
Prior experience working in IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management expertise, project management skills, and familiarity with IT governance frameworks such as ITIL.
Familiarity with ServiceNow (SNOW) application.
Able to write the technical/user documentation.
Able to adapt to a fast-paced work environment with minimal supervision.
Experience working with MS Excel and Excel macro programming, preferred.
People person and should be able to manage stakeholders’ engagements.
Proficient in using project management and productivity tools like MS Office (Power point, Excel, Visio) and MS Project etc.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or any other equivalent field.
Minimum 2 to 5 years of work experience in IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management expertise.
Fair understanding of IT infrastructure and cloud computing concepts and technologies, preferably with practical experience working with one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Excellent English communication skills (both written and verbal)
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