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Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC

• Hybrid position located in Little Rock, AR; The Woodlands, TX; New Orleans, LA; or Jackson, MS. Those outside must relocate. No relocation assistance or sponsorship.
• Official job title: IT Consultant, Sr

Job Summary/Purpose

This position designs, implements, and maintains complex network infrastructures across the organization, ensuring performance, security, and scalability of the enterprise data network environment.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end lifecycle of network infrastructure: design, deployment, performance tuning, proactive maintenance, firmware upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Provide expert analysis of proposed infrastructure changes, including impact and cost.
• Develop strategic and tactical plans for network expansion (cloud, SDN, routing, switching, load balancing, mesh networking, wireless technologies) across data center, corporate, OT, and WAN environments.
• Serve as Technical Mentor and SME for junior engineers; support skill development and project coordination.
• Support leadership in emerging technology opportunities; advise on impact on existing environments.
• Capture business capability and functional requirements; create IT‑Networking roadmap.
• Maintain understanding of networking technology needs; visit business units to assess satisfaction and opportunities.
• Participate in installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, optimization; troubleshoot at physical, data, control plane, higher‑order layers.
• Create and maintain implementation plans and documentation for network configuration, mapping, processes, service records.
• Oversee and implement technology upgrades, equipment, hardware, software.
• Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, standards.
• Lead resolution of complex technical problems via coordination with IT personnel, customers, vendors; develop policies, procedures, training for network administration and disaster recovery.
• Coordinate with vendors, outsourcers, contractors for network products/services.
• Respond as Data Network representative in on‑call 24x7 rotation for emergent issues across Corporate, OT, and Metering/Distribution Automation environments.
• Work with Business and Project Management to review strategies, maintain requirements, validate delivered solutions.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum Education Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
  • Master's degree is a plus.
  • Additional Technical certifications or professional licenses are a plus.
• Minimum Experience Required:
  • 8+ years relevant networking experience; 5+ years solution design experience.
• Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Knowledge of network technologies, protocols, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, management tools, packet capture, troubleshooting tools.
  • Routing and switching technologies; network security technologies.
  • Proficiency in OSPF, BGP, IS‑IS and other networking features (NAT, ACLs, multicast, VLANs, spanning tree, spine‑leaf).
  • Experience with NERC CIP preferred.
  • Strong IP addressing design.
  • Strong verbal and written communication.
  • Documentation of business requirements and technical solutions.
  • Financial management of project deliverables.
  • Technical lead experience on major implementation projects.
  • Cloud networking and automation/scripting tools (plus).
• Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Distribution Automation assets (DNP, PI Vision, SCADA, Engineering Design).
  • Advanced technologies (MPLS, VRF, BGP, SDN, Cloud Networking).
  • Analytical and data analysis skills.
• Preferred Certifications:
  • Senior IT Consultant – Network Professional/Expert (e.g., CCNP/CCIE, JNCIP/JNCIE).
  • Cloud certifications.

Primary Location

Texas – The Woodlands; Arkansas – Little Rock; Louisiana – New Orleans; Mississippi – Jackson

Job Function

Information Technology

FLSA Status

Professional

Relocation Option

No Relocation Offered

Union Description/Code

NON BARGAINING UNIT

Number of Openings

1

Req ID

119232

Travel Percentage

25% to 50%

Equal Opportunity

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEO page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement

The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.