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SolarWinds Implementation Engineer

EXOS
2 days ago
Contract
On-site
Orient, Ohio, United States
Solar Panel Inspections

Job Description

Position Overview: 

Our client is seeking an experienced SolarWinds Implementation Engineer to support a large scale deployment of SolarWinds Observability Self Hosted Advanced within a complex enterprise networking environment. The successful candidate will provide expertise across platform design, implementation, configuration, integration, testing, documentation, and knowledge transfer activities.

This role will support the implementation of a greenfield SolarWinds deployment consisting of production and non production environments supporting approximately 1,500 to 2,000 network nodes. The consultant will play a key role in establishing monitoring, configuration management, IP address management, user device tracking, high availability, and enterprise integrations.

Responsibilities: 
  • Support discovery, requirements gathering, and solution design activities.
  • Assist with SolarWinds platform architecture and deployment planning.
  • Install and configure SolarWinds Observability Self Hosted Advanced platform components.
  • Configure and validate Network Performance Monitor (NPM).
  • Configure and validate Network Configuration Manager (NCM).
  • Configure and validate IP Address Manager (IPAM).
  • Configure and validate User Device Tracker (UDT).
  • Deploy and configure polling engines and supporting infrastructure.
  • Perform network device discovery, onboarding, and monitoring configuration.
  • Develop monitoring thresholds, alerts, dashboards, and reporting solutions.
  • Configure role based access control and single sign on integrations.
  • Implement and test high availability capabilities.
  • Configure configuration backup and compliance monitoring using NCM.
  • Support integration with ServiceNow for incident management workflows.
  • Support event forwarding and integration with Dynatrace.
  • Perform platform tuning and optimization activities.
  • Execute system validation, user acceptance testing, and production readiness testing.
  • Support production cutover activities.
  • Develop technical documentation, operational runbooks, and implementation guides.
  • Deliver knowledge transfer sessions to customer operations and engineering teams.

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications: 
  • Strong hands on experience implementing SolarWinds in enterprise environments.
  • Proven experience with SolarWinds Observability Self Hosted or SolarWinds Orion based platforms.
  • Expertise with NPM, NCM, IPAM, and UDT modules.
  • Experience configuring SolarWinds alerting, dashboards, reporting, and monitoring policies.
  • Experience deploying and supporting SolarWinds high availability environments.
  • Strong understanding of SNMPv3 and enterprise network monitoring best practices.
  • Experience with device discovery, onboarding, polling engine deployment, and platform tuning.
  • Experience with role based access control and single sign on integration.
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem solving capabilities.
  • Ability to create technical documentation and conduct knowledge transfer sessions.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience monitoring Cisco ACI environments.
  • Experience monitoring Cisco SD WAN environments.
  • Experience with F5 load balancing technologies.
  • Experience with Palo Alto Networks platforms.
  • Experience with Infoblox solutions.
  • Experience integrating SolarWinds with ServiceNow.
  • Experience integrating SolarWinds events with Dynatrace.
  • Experience supporting large scale enterprise network monitoring deployments.