Solarwinds Administrator

Network Tools Engineer L4 / Automation Engineer - SolarWinds

Overview:

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: o Node onboarding/offboarding o Alert suppression or muting during maintenance windows o Custom alert/report generation and distribution o SolarWindsServiceNow 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.

Preferred:

• Exposure to event-driven automation, such as responding to alerts with corrective actions.
• Past work automating SolarWinds alert tuning, configuration, or compliance reporting.
• Exposure to ServiceNow integrations, REST APIs, and webhook configuration