Senior Monitoring and Observability Specialist

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid

Legal Entity:Entergy Services LLC

***This is a hybrid position located in New Orleans LA The Woodlands TX Jackson MS or Little Rock AR. Relocation assistance and sponsorship is not provided. The official title will be IT Consultant or IT Consultant Sr depending on the qualifications and experience of the selected candidate.***

Job Summary/Purpose

The Infrastructure Applications team supports a range of tools to provide monitoring and observability services to the entire enterprise. The consultant will be expected to work closely with other teams in a multi-vendor multi-shore environment to help identify and close observability gaps in order to continuously improve customer experience.

Strong preference will be given to candidates with AWS-native monitoring knowledge and experience.

The consultant will be expected to provide subject matter expertise and day-to-day support for various enterprise tools including:

• Broadcom (CA) toolsets (e.g. DX AIOps NetOps Spectrum UIM Nimsoft DX APM etc.)
• Broadcom (CA) Workload Automation (Autosys)
• xMatters

Required Education Knowledge and/or Skills:

• IT Consultant: 6 years experiences supporting or developing applications in an enterprise environment with particular emphasis on monitoring/observability solutions.
• IT Consultant Sr: 8 years of experience supporting or developing applications in an enterprise environment with particular emphasis on monitoring/observability solutions.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field is preferred. Experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues in a timely manner.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to appropriately prioritize and manage workloads in a remote environment.
• Demonstrated ability to handle stressful situations calmly and effectively.

Preferred experience knowledge and/or skills:

• Solid knowledge of application server and/or network design.
• Demonstrated experience managing IT projects in an outsourced development environment.
• Experience implementing and managing monitoring solutions in a cloud environment is a strong plus (particularly AWS).

Key Responsibilities

• Install configure and maintain monitoring tools and related technologies.
• Actively participate in cross-team investigations to identify gaps in observability and propose solutions to close those gaps. This will include after-hours support for high priority issues.
• Manage vulnerabilities throughout our tools portfolio in accordance with established policies/procedures.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and best practices evaluating and implementing new tools and techniques to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of our monitoring services.
• Work seamlessly alongside a group of outsourced partners.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of our operational practices.
• Provide regular input to the departments strategic roadmap.
• Follow ITIL processes for incident change problem and vulnerability resolution.
• The following skills and technologies are considered a strong plus:
  • ServiceNow (Incident Request and Configuration Management)
  • Process automation
  • Continuous Improvement methodologies
  • Application Performance Monitoring (APM) experience
  • Experience with application or infrastructure development support or monitoring within major cloud platform(s) (e.g. AWS Azure etc.)
  • Splunk platform administration experience (e.g. design installation index management etc.)
  • DevSecOps or FinOps toolsets

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Primary Location: Louisiana-New 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: 120575
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

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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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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.