SolarWinds Administrator / Network Administrator II

Title: SolarWinds Network Administrator Location: Austin, TX | Hybrid, on-site and telework Time Zone Alignment: Central Time Shift/On-Call Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM; may require evenings, weekends, and holidays as requested Compensation : $40-$50+ /hour Benefits We’re hiring a SolarWinds Administrator / Network Administrator II to support an enterprise monitoring environment. This role is focused heavily on SolarWinds Orion administration, monitoring optimization, alerting, reporting, troubleshooting, and infrastructure visibility. What You’ll Be Doing Administer, maintain, optimize, and support the SolarWinds environment Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain SolarWinds products and modules Support SolarWinds Orion / Hybrid Cloud Observability components Manage polling engines, web servers, database connectivity, backups, and disaster recovery Monitor network, server, application, traffic, logs, and configuration environments Develop custom alerts, thresholds, and escalation workflows Reduce alert noise and improve monitoring accuracy Build NOC dashboards and executive-level reporting Create custom SQL reports for availability, performance, bandwidth, and capacity Troubleshoot polling failures, monitoring gaps, and SolarWinds platform performance Integrate SolarWinds with Active Directory, BMC Remedy/Helix ITSM, SNMP, WMI, Syslog, APIs, and email/SMS alerting Support monitoring across routers, switches, firewalls, wireless infrastructure, virtual environments, and cloud resources Partner with network and infrastructure teams on incident response and root cause analysis Maintain RBAC, secure configurations, credential management, documentation, and monitoring standards Required Experience 4+ years administering and supporting SolarWinds Orion, including NPM, NCM, SAM, and related modules Experience supporting large enterprise environments with 1,500+ monitored devices Experience with SolarWinds upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, and platform optimization VMware and/or Hyper-V experience Strong knowledge of enterprise monitoring and alerting Experience building NOC dashboards and executive reports Ability to develop custom SQL queries and reports Experience with Power Automate, Microsoft Teams, and Power BI Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills Experience working with network and infrastructure teams during incidents and root cause analysis Preferred Experience Cisco, Meraki, Fortinet, and/or Juniper BGP, OSPF, VLANs, routing, and switching fundamentals Public-sector or regulated environments SOP development and continuous improvement