IT Hosting Manager 118458
IT Hosting Manager 118458
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Job Description
Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid
Legal Entity:Entergy Services LLC
*** This is a hybrid position located in New Orleans LA Little Rock AR The Woodlands TX or Jackson MS. Relocation assistance and sponsorship is not provided. ***
Job Summary
The IT Hosting Manager is responsible for overseeing the enterprise hosting environment which includes Windows and Red Hat Linux servers VMware and Nutanix virtual environments NetApp Storage and AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure. This role ensures the stability security and efficiency of hosting services supporting businesscritical applications and services for a largescale utility enterprise. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in managing onpremises and cloud environments optimizing performance and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Key Responsibilities
Hosting Infrastructure Management
- Lead the administration maintenance and optimization of Windows Server and Red Hat Linux environments across onpremises and cloud platforms.
- Lead the administration maintenance and optimization of storage and backup/recovery platforms.
- Oversee the design deployment and lifecycle management of cloud workloads ensuring best practices for security cost optimization and performance.
- Develop and implement strategies for workload placement across onpremises data centers and cloud environments to meet operational and financial objectives.
- Ensure high availability disaster recovery and business continuity planning for critical infrastructure.
- Develop and maintain technology and project roadmaps to build new capabilities and consolidate and standardize our hosting technology portfolio over time.
- Manage operational budgets vendor contracts and project portfolio for the IT hosting team.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Operational Excellence & Security
- Implement and enforce security policies compliance frameworks and best practices for hosting infrastructure.
- Manage patching configuration management and vulnerability remediation for Windows Linux Storage and cloud environments.
- Monitor and optimize system performance leveraging automation and observability tools to ensure proactive issue resolution.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis efforts for hostingrelated outages or security incidents.
- Conduct/support regular security audits and assessments.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Manage a team of system administrators and cloud engineers providing leadership mentorship and career development.
- Foster a collaborative team culture and promote continuous learning and development.
- Collaborate with IT security application and network teams to ensure seamless integration and performance across the enterprise.
- Coordinate with Program Managers application leads and vendors to develop/enhance applications infrastructure and end user computing platforms in a timely cost effective predictable secure reliable manner. Build strong relationships with internal IT Program Managers Business Unit Leaders and IT Operations organizations to ensure coordination across multiple products.
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand requirements and align hosting solutions with organizational goals.
- Manage vendor relationships licensing and service agreements related to hosting infrastructure.
Cloud & Automation Strategy
- Drive automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (e.g. Terraform Ansible PowerShell AWS CloudFormation).
- Guide the organizations hybrid cloud strategy optimizing the use of AWS and Azure services alongside onpremises resources.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in cloud computing server management and enterprise hosting.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 7 years of experience managing enterprise hosting environments including Windows Linux and cloud platforms.
- Strong expertise in Windows Server (Active Directory Group Policy PowerShell) and Red Hat Linux (RHEL Satellite Ansible).
- Strong expertise in enterprise storage backup/recovery and business continuity implementation and strategy development.
- Handson experience with AWS services (EC2 S3 VPC RDS IAM Lambda etc. Azure services and hybrid cloud architectures.
- Familiarity with automation tools such as Terraform Ansible or PowerShell DSC.
- Understanding of security best practices and compliance frameworks preferably relevant to the utility industry.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Splunk Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Manager/DX Netops/Application Portfolio Monitoring/Spectrum AWS CloudWatch).
- Excellent leadership communication and project management skills.
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect SysOps Administrator or similar).
- Microsoft certifications (MCSE Azure Administrator) or Red Hat certifications (RHCSA RHCE).
- Experience in the utility industry or other highly regulated environments.
- Knowledge of containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and DevSecOps methodologies.
- Experience managing largescale projects or initiatives.
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Primary Location: LouisianaNew OrleansLouisiana : New Orleans
Arkansas : Little Rock
Mississippi : Jackson
Texas : The Woodlands
Job Function: Information Technology
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 118458
Travel Percentage:Up to 25
An Equal Opportunity Employer Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEI 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 nondiscrimination 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.
Accessibility:Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant employee or third party on his or her behalf.If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please clickhereand provide your name contact number the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.
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.
The nonconfidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.
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.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
