Senior DDI Engineer

Company: Entergy
Location: Winnfield
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

Senior DDI Engineer
Date: Apr 28, 2023
Location: The Woodlands, Texas, United States
Company: Entergy
Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid
Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC
The official title for this role will be 'IT Consultant Sr'
This position may be filled at any location within Entergy's service territory
JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:
This position ensures the stability and integrity of DDI services and enhancements. This is achieved by planning, designing, and developing DNS, DHCP and IPAM management tools across the organization. This position is also responsible for analysis of network characteristics and recommendations for removals, and modifications to network components.
Job Duties/Responsibilities

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  Provide overall design guidelines for DDI integration, performance, reliability, operating, and innovation. Support business units in the creation of project business cases (e.g., success criteria).
  
  
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  Capture business capability requirements, functional requirements, and expected service levels from business unit to create an actionable IT-Networking roadmap (a long-range plan for the business that identifies specific IT investments in infrastructure to support business objectives).
  
  
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  Support infrastructure leadership in identifying opportunities for emerging technologies, through collaboration, to enable business strategies. Provide an advisory role with the client on the impact of new technologies on their existing technical and network environment.
  
  
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  Work with BA and PM teams to review strategies and requirements. Ensure business and functional requirements are maintained throughout the development/configuration process. Review and analyze results to validate the functions of the delivered solution.
  
  
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  Maintain strong understanding of networking technology needs and solutions for the business unit. Regularly visit business units to assess satisfaction and identify follow-up opportunities. Consider alternate delivery models for meeting business needs.
  
  
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  Liaise between the client, vendors, project management and the technical teams on questions, issues, and revisions to the solution architecture.
  
  
  Education Requirements:
  Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience. Master's degree is a plus.
  Minimum Requirements:
  8+ years of DDI support and management experience is needed
  5+ years Designing/Build/Migration experience of complex DDI systems in enterprise environments
  Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  

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  Expertise designing, transforming, managing, and migrating complex Infoblox Environments.
  
  
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  Been technical lead with hands on Infoblox implantations/migrations.
  
  
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  Expert understanding of Network Services, DNS, DHCP, ISC BIND, NTP and TCP/IP
  
  
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  Experience architecting, implementing, and configuring OEM platforms especially InfoBlox. BlueCat or VitalQIP is a plus.
  
  
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  Deep understanding of IP addressing design
  
  
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  Experience with Microsoft DDI and Open-source DDI (ISC BIND and ISC DNS, etc.) Desired.
  
  
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  Proven experience planning and executing migrations to or from any of the various DDI OEM platforms
  
  
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  Perl and Python scripting is desired
  
  
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  Knowledge of switches, routers, load balancers and firewalls and their interactions with DDI is a must.
  
  
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  Network Operating Systems: MS Active Directory, Linux, UNIX, etc.
  
  
  Any certificates, licenses, etc. required of the position
  Certifications in InfoBlox is a plus
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  Job Function : Information Technology
  FLSA Status : Professional
  Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
  Union description/code : NON BARGAINING UNIT-NBU
  Number of Openings : 1
  Req ID: 110894
  Travel Percentage : Up to 25%
  An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please clickhere (https://jobs.entergy.com/content/EEO/?locale=en_US) 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, 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, 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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  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.
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