IT Consultant, Sr

Job Title: IT Consultant, Sr

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid

Legal Entity: Entergy Operations, Inc.-EOI

This is a hybrid position located in Little Rock, AR, Woodlands, TX, New Orleans, LA or Jackson, MS. Relocation assistance and sponsorship is not provided. The official job title for this position is Sr. IT Consultant.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly experienced and technically adept Senior IT Consultant with deep expertise in Backup and Storage technologies. This role is ideal for a hands-on strategic thinker who can lead complex infrastructure projects, optimize enterprise environments, and maintain security posture.

This position will work closely with business units, internal IT teams, and strategic partners to support Entergy’s evolution into a modern, agile enterprise while maintaining the reliability expected from a leading utility company. The role requires a balance of technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, hands-on engineering, a strong emphasis on automation, cloud integration, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, implement and optimize Commvault, NetApp, and Nutanix infrastructure solutions, including physical infrastructure, virtual infrastructure, and AWS cloud environments.

- Lead Commvault deployments, upgrades, and performance tuning.

- Lead NetApp deployments, upgrades, and performance tuning.

- Plan and execute migrations from legacy systems to modern platforms ensuring minimal downtime and risk.

- Implement security best practices across infrastructure layers, including patching, vulnerability management, and compliance with industry standards and benchmarks.

- Use tools like Commvault Console, Nutanix Prism, True Sight Capacity Optimizer, and Splunk to proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs, lead technical workshops, and deliver high-impact solutions.

- Produce detailed documentation and provide training to internal teams.

- Manage and resolve IT incidents and service tasks swiftly and effectively by following ITIL processes, coordinating with cross-functional teams, ensuring timely stakeholder communication, and contributing to continual service improvement through reporting, analysis, and adherence to best practices.

- Participate in the IT change management process by submitting, reviewing, and approving change requests related to Windows servers and infrastructure components.

- Act as mentor to junior engineers to ensure deliverables are met on a timely basis.

- Ability to travel up to 25% required

- Able to Participate in On-Call rotations

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience

- 7+ years of experience in IT consulting or systems administration with a focus on backup and storage environments

- Cloud based expertise, Azure, AWS

- Proven expertise in Commvault or Metallic

- Proven expertise in NetApp

- Strong understanding of networking, storage, and disaster recovery concepts

- Excellent communication, documentation, and client-facing skills

Preferred Qualifications

- Commvault certifications – Commvault Console, Commvault Command Center

- NetApp certifications – NetApp Certified Professional Technology Solutions; NetApp Certified Professional Data Administrator OnTap

- Experience with hybrid cloud integration (Azure, AWS, or GCP)

- Experience with enterprise management platforms such as BigFix, True Sight Capacity Optimizer, Cisco UCS Manager, Open Manage Enterprise

Why Join Us

At Entergy, we’re powering the future—and that includes modernizing our IT landscape. This is an opportunity to directly contribute to one of the most important digital transformations in the utility sector. Join us as we bridge our rich legacy of operational excellence with the agility and innovation of the cloud.

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Primary Location: Arkansas-Little Rock Mississippi : Jackson

Job Function: All Other Jobs FLSA Status: Professional Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT Number of Openings: 1 Req ID: 120977 Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

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.

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

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Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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EEI Testing:

One way that Entergy has found to identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs is through pre-employment testing. If this position does require an EEI test, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting. If you are invited to a test session, we strongly recommend you review and complete the practice test as well as review the testing brochure for your respective test. The test brochure will give you critical information on the test such as time allocated and number of questions. Also, keep in mind that the actual test is timed; you should practice timing yourself while doing the practice tests. The practice test information and test brochures can be located by going to the EEI website, http://www.eei.org/practicetests, Logon ID: entergy, password: practice test (2 words). Travel expenses incurred in connection with EEI testing are non-reimbursable.

In addition to EEI testing there is also Fit-for-Duty testing which will identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs. If this position does require Fit-for-Duty testing, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.