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We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job Description: Provide technical and operational support for enterprise software license infrastructure and vendor managed licensing environments to ensure availability, license compliance, and user provisioning.
Key Responsibilities: 
    Design, develop, and maintain solutions on FlexNet Operations (FNO), FlexNet Embedded (FNE).
    Architect and implement FlexNet Operations (FNO), FlexNet Embedded (FNE), or FlexNet Manager Suite (FNMS) depending on the organization's licensing and SAM needs
    Design and Implement licensing workflows, entitlement management, and product packaging.
    Integrate FlexNet with ERP, CRM, and cloud-based applications.
    Collaborate with business teams to gather requirements and deliver effective solutions.
    Build and maintain integrations with ERP, CRM, cloud platforms, and internal applications.
    Oversee server setup, Beacon configuration, database preparation, and agent deployment for FNMS environments
    Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in licensing and entitlement systems.
    Ensure compliance, scalability, and performance of FlexNet implementations.
    Perform license file updates, reauthentication, and configuration changes required by vendor licensing models or renewals.
    Administer and support cloud-based license managers, provision user assignments within license portals, manage remote dongles, and manage other licensing mechanisms.
    Conduct monthly license hygiene and cleanup activities based on usage and compliance reporting.
    Collaborate with the broader ITAM, Infrastructure, and Deployment teams to support availability and operational continuity.
    Resolve technical issues across licensing, entitlement, and SAM systems.
     Maintain Windows/Linux/UNIX server environments supporting Flexera tools.
    Administer license portals, cloud license managers, remote dongles, and entitlement systems.
    Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance driving continuous SAM processes, automation and data quality. 

Primary Technology Skills:
    Deep hands on experience with FNMS, FlexNet Operations (FNO), FlexNet Embedded (FNE)
    Strong understanding of software licensing models, entitlement management, and monetization strategies.
    Proficiency with APIs, scripting, SQL, IIS, and multi OS environments.
    Ability to design and manage hybrid environments, including containerized platforms (AKS/EKS in senior roles)
    Strong analytical, problem-solving.
    SSO/SAML/OAuth for Flexera authentication integrations. 
    TCP/IP fundamentals, firewalls, proxies, load balancers. 
    Clear communication with both technical and non technical stakeholders.
    Experience with integration platforms like MuleSoft, Boomi etc., 
    Powershell, Python and bash scripting skills,
    Experience with Azure Automation, Jenkins, GitHubActions. 
    Data modeling and normalization skills with Reporting tools like PowerBI, Tableau. 
 

We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.