Senior Asset Management Specialist

Responsibilities

• Lead, optimize, and oversee the lifecycle management of all software licenses, hardware components, and cloud-based resources utilized across the Software Yard's engineering branches.
• Drive budget formulation and long-term resource planning by delivering predictive asset lifecycle costs, license compliance models, and procurement forecasting.
• Architect and govern the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and ITAM toolsets to maintain absolute data integrity across multiple technology domains.
• Provide strategic contracting support by analyzing enterprise license agreements (ELAs), managing vendor relationships, and evaluating complex software maintenance renewals.
• Execute advanced utilization audits and cost-optimization analyses to identify systemic cost-saving targets, redundant software platforms, and underutilized cloud resources.
• Enforce absolute alignment of asset tracking baselines with federal IT asset management policies, government regulations, and USCG security mandates.
• Collaborate closely with government leadership, Product Owners, and engineering leads to integrate upcoming architectural modernizations into future procurement roadmaps.
• Create, review, and maintain enterprise-wide documentation, standard operating procedures, and governance frameworks for IT asset management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s with 6 - 9 years (or commensurate experience) of senior-level IT asset management (ITAM) experience overseeing complex software and hardware portfolios within a federal or enterprise environment.
• Proven experience managing major enterprise licensing models (e.g., VMware/VCF per-core, Microsoft EA, Oracle, SaaS) and defending against compliance audits.
• Comprehensive operational understanding of federal procurement frameworks, IT service management (ITSM), and strategic resource planning.
• Strong experience engineering workflows within enterprise ITAM/CMDB platforms to automate asset tracking and discovery.
• Proficiency tracking tasks, license distributions, and system dependencies using enterprise systems (such as ServiceNow, Jira, or Azure DevOps).
• Strong foundational understanding of diverse IT domains, including cloud-native environments, virtualization licensing, software-defined infrastructure, and hardware lifecycles.

Clearance

Required: Active Secret Clearance

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting U.S. Coast Guard, Software Yard, or Department of Homeland Security (DHS) business and acquisition programs.
• Deep familiarity with USCG financial management systems, contracting structures, or PEO C5I acquisition lifecycles.
• Relevant enterprise-level certifications highly preferred (e.g., Certified IT Asset Manager (CITAM), Certified Software Asset Manager (CSAM), Certified Hardware Asset Management Professional (CHAMP), or ITIL Intermediate/Expert).
• Understanding of Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) and experience tracking asset optimization/consumption metrics within AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience leading asset verification audits in support of software assurance baselines, continuous authorization boundaries, or DISA STIG compliance.

Pay

USD $70,000.00 - USD $90,000.00 /Yr.