Key responsibilities include
- Evaluate and communicate implications of FOSS licenses to both technical and nontechnical teams
- Contribute to training and awareness of licensing implications within engineering team
- Documenting and summarizing the risks associated with an opensource license
- Categorizing licenses not recognized by automation into appropriate categories including Liberal Weak Copyleft Copyleft and Banned as defined
- Analysis of output of software license scanning tools to identify incorrectly reported missing license data
- Review existing opensource licenses and recommend any changes required
- Work with existing suppliers of software licensing tools to improve the quality of software license reporting
- Participate in the selection assessment and development of license evaluation automation
- To be successful the candidate will be a self-starter be well organised disciplined be able to work with minimal supervision have exceptional attention to detail and excellent communication skills
Required
- Knowledge of software licensing terminology and experience of working with a range of opensource software licences
- Interest and experience in software development
- Experience of opensource software from a usage or contribution perspective
- Ability to differentiate between opensource and free of charge chargeable commercial licences
Desired
- Legal training copyright law
- Worked in a control or a regulated environment
- Dev Sec Ops
- Agile environment
- Evaluation tooling Nexus IQ Server or other eg Black Duck
Skills
Mandatory Skills : Agile (Value-Driven Delivery), Azure DevOps
