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We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer whose primary focus will be cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, identity, and operational reliability.
This role is broader than a traditional CI/CD or application-platform position. The successful candidate will take ownership of core infrastructure and systems responsibilities while applying DevOps practices - automation, infrastructure as code, monitoring, documentation, and self-service, to make the environment more scalable.
What you’ll do
Cloud and systems infrastructure
- Administer and support Microsoft Azure, AWS, Windows Server, Active Directory, Entra ID, VMware, and related infrastructure.
- Manage infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, certificates, backups, monitoring, and lifecycle operations.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, identity, access, and service issues and provide senior escalation support.
- Support cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, and hybrid-cloud operations.
Identity and operational security
- Manage identity and access, including groups, privileged access, service accounts, application registrations, and access reviews.
- Support secure administration of Active Directory, Entra ID, Azure, AWS, and other enterprise platforms.
- Partner with Security, IAM, Audit, and People teams on access controls, compliance activities, andremediation work.
Automation and DevOps practices
- Automate repetitive infrastructure, access, and operational tasks using PowerShell, Python, Terraform, or similar tools.
- Apply infrastructure-as-code and repeatable configuration practices where practical.
- Improve provisioning, access lifecycle management, monitoring, reporting, and audit processes.
- Support CI/CD, GitHub, developer environments, and shared platform services as needed.
- Help move the team from manual, ticket-driven work toward reliable and repeatable self-service capabilities.
Operational ownership
- Maintain clear documentation, system ownership records, runbooks, and recovery procedures.
- Lead or participate in infrastructure changes from planning through implementation and validation.
- Participate in systems/infrastructure on-call and escalation activities.
- Work closely with Systems, DevOps, Security, Service Desk, and application teams.
- Share knowledge and reduce dependency on individual subject-matter experts.
What you’ll bring
- Strong experience in systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or IT operations.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, Active Directory/Entra ID, Windows Server, and enterprise infrastructure.
- Working knowledge of AWS and VMware or another enterprise virtualization platform.
- Experience with identity, access management, service accounts, and privileged administration.
- Practical scripting or automation experience, especially with PowerShell.
- Familiarity with Terraform, infrastructure as code, configuration management, or CI/CD tools.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and incident-management skills.
- A security-minded approach to access, change management, and production operations.
Preferred experience
- Azure DevBox, Azure Virtual Desktop, or comparable developer-workstation platforms.
- GitHub administration, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, or other CI/CD platforms.
- Kubernetes or containerized workloads.
- SailPoint or comparable identity-governance platforms.
- Experience supporting SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar audit controls.•
- Microsoft, Azure, AWS, VMware, Terraform, or security certifications.
Success in this role
- Core systems, identity services, and cloud infrastructure remain reliable, secure, and well documented.
- Repetitive infrastructure and access work is progressively automated.
- Infrastructure changes become more repeatable, observable, and auditable.
- Systems knowledge is shared across the team through documentation and mentoring.
- The role provides dependable systems coverage while contributing to the future DevOps and cloud-platform direction.
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- Strong experience in systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or IT operations
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, Active Directory or Entra ID, Windows Server, and enterprise infrastructure
- Working knowledge of AWS and VMware or another enterprise virtualization platform
- Experience with identity and access management, service accounts, and privileged administration
- Practical scripting or automation experience, especially with PowerShell
- Familiarity with Terraform, infrastructure as code, configuration management, or CI/CD tools
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and incident-management skills
- Security-minded approach to access, change management, and production operations
- Experience with Azure DevBox, Azure Virtual Desktop, or comparable developer-workstation platforms
- GitHub administration, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, or other CI/CD platform experience
- Kubernetes or containerized workloads experience
- SailPoint or comparable identity-governance platform experience
- Experience supporting SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar audit controls
- Microsoft, Azure, AWS, VMware, Terraform, or security certifications
SolarWinds Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SolarWinds and has not been reviewed or approved by SolarWinds.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with some locations covering healthcare, dental, and vision at 100% and generally well-regarded plan quality. Feedback suggests wellness resources, counseling, and fitness reimbursements further strengthen the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and a sabbatical after five years are part of the package. Feedback suggests global parental leave minimums add meaningful family support to the overall time-off mix.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Compensation is considered solid by many, with consistent raises noted alongside base pay. Feedback suggests bonuses and structured increases contribute to a sense of ongoing pay growth.
SolarWinds Insights
What We Do
SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK® community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services.
