Senior SolarWinds Automation Engineer

Role – Network Tools Engineer L4 Experience - 10+ Location – Preferably Chennai – Remote Options 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: 1. Node onboarding/offboarding 2. Alert suppression or muting during maintenance windows 3. 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. 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