Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud & Identity Platform

SolarWinds; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SolarWinds is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer focused on cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, identity, and operational reliability in Austin, TX. The role spans beyond CI/CD, owning core infrastructure, applying DevOps practices, and enabling self‑service for the team.

You’ll automate tasks, implement infrastructure as code, improve provisioning and monitoring, and collaborate with Security, IAM, and other groups to strengthen controls and reliability.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

SRE

Identity mgmt

Automation

PowerShell

CI/CD

Documentation

On-call

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

VMware

Azure

Job description

SolarWinds is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer focused on cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, identity, and operational reliability in Austin, TX. The role spans beyond CI/CD, owning core infrastructure, applying DevOps practices, and enabling self‑service for the team.

You’ll automate tasks, implement infrastructure as code, improve provisioning and monitoring, and collaborate with Security, IAM, and other groups to strengthen controls and reliability.