Network Tools Engineer L4

Network Tools Engineer L4 - J49852

Role & responsibilities

Role Network Tools Engineer L4

Experience - 10+yrs

Location Preferably Chennai Remote Options also Available

Mode Permanent

Shift UK (Noon Shift)

Job Description

Mandate Skill : PowerShell Development Any Monitoring tools Experience Like Solarwinds OR logic Monitor

Network Tools Engineer L4 / Automation Engineer – SolarWinds – Powershell development

We are seeking a highly skilled SolarWinds Engineer to manage, optimize and automate various functions of our SolarWinds platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the SolarWinds Orion suite, with experience in maintenance and troubleshooting of the platform as well as PowerShell Development. This role plays a critical part in ensuring observability, performance monitoring, and automation across our global infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

Administer and maintain the SolarWinds Orion platform, including NPM, NCM, SAM, VNQM, and other modules.

Develop and maintain PowerShell scripts for automating SolarWinds tasks such as:

Node onboarding/offboarding

Alert suppression or muting during maintenance windows

Custom alert/report generation and distribution o SolarWinds–ServiceNow integration enhancements

Implement custom monitoring logic, automated diagnostics, and integrations via Orion API, SWIS, and REST endpoints.

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand automation needs and deliver solutions that support observability workflows.

Build tools and utilities to support monitoring self-service, reporting automation, and configuration validation.

Manage custom Pollers, SNMP configurations, and agentless/agent-based monitoring across multi-vendor environments.

Design and optimize SWQL and SQL queries to support reports and custom dashboards for tailored views.

Configure and maintain alert logic, escalation policies, and notification integrations (e.g., with ServiceNow, email, Teams).

Participate in incident triage and root cause analysis, leveraging SolarWinds logs and metrics.

Maintain security posture of the application, including RBAC, SNMPv3, and audit logging.

Contribute to and maintain Kanban board tasks and documentation related to SolarWinds projects and issues.

Required Skills & Experience:

5+ years of hands-on experience managing SolarWinds environments (Orion Platform 2020.2.6 or newer).

3+ years of PowerShell development experience focused on infrastructure and monitoring automation.

Strong experience with Orion SDK, SWQL Studio, and SolarWinds API integrations.

Strong understanding of PowerShell classes, modules, error handling, and parallelization techniques.

SQL Server knowledge, including query optimization, performance tuning, and CTEs.

Familiarity with network topology mapping, NetPath, and NetFlow analysis.

Experience in large-scale monitoring environments (>1000 nodes).

Solid understanding of Windows Server, IIS, and system-level diagnostics.

Comfortable working in Kanban/Agile environments with tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps.

Strong communication skills to collaborate with multiple teams and technical stakeholders.