SolarWinds Network Administrator

Neos Consulting Group; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Neos Consulting Group is seeking a SolarWinds Administrator for a long-term contract role with our client in Austin, TX. The position is hybrid, based in Austin with 78731 zip code.

Ideal candidates reside in Texas and have 4+ years of SolarWinds administration, virtualization experience, and a track record building dashboards and automated workflows using Power Automate and Power BI. You will support ITSD in monitoring enterprise environments and incident response.

Qualifications

• Administration and support of SolarWinds Orion Platform including upgrades
• Familiarity with virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V)
• Monitor and maintain a large-scale enterprise environment (1500+ devices)
• Design, implement, and optimize alerting to reduce noise
• Build NOC dashboards and executive reports for real-time visibility
• Develop custom SQL queries for availability and performance
• Automate workflows with Power Automate, Teams, and Power BI
• Collaborate with network and infrastructure teams for incidents
• Maintain documentation and monitoring best practices

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain SolarWinds environment for TxDMV ITSD
• Install, configure, and upgrade SolarWinds modules
• Create dashboards and operational views for IT teams
• Develop custom reports and analyze capacity data
• Integrate SolarWinds with AD, Remedy, alerting systems
• Support monitoring for routers, switches, firewalls, cloud resources

Skills

SolarWinds Orion Admin

Virtualization

Enterprise monitoring

SQL queries

Power Automate

Power BI

Troubleshooting

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

SolarWinds Orion Platform

VMware

Hyper-V

Job description

Neos is Seeking a SolarWinds Administrator for a long-term contract role for with our client in Austin, TX.

This position is hybrid (Austin, Texas 78731)

• HYBRID – ONLY CANDIDATES CURRENTLY RESIDING IN TEXAS (AUSTIN AREA PREFERRED WILL BE CONSIDERED***

The Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) requires the services of one (1) SolarWinds Administrator, hereafter referred to as Worker, who meets the general qualifications of a Network Administrator 2 and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.

Description Of Services

• Performs administration, maintenance, optimization, and support of the SolarWinds environment; in support of the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV), Information Technology Services Division (ITSD).
• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain SolarWinds products and modules
• Manage SolarWinds Orion/Hybrid Cloud Observability platform components
• Configure polling engines, additional web servers, and database connectivity
• Perform platform backups, disaster recovery, and system health checks
• Monitor SolarWinds server performance and optimize polling loads

Monitoring & Alerting

• Network monitoring
• Server monitoring
• Application monitoring
• NetFlow/traffic analysis
• Log monitoring
• Configuration management
• Develop custom alerts, thresholds, and escalation workflows
• Reduce false positives and improve alert accuracy
• Create dashboards and operational views for IT teams and management

Reporting & Analytics

• Generate operational and executive reports
• Build custom performance and availability reports
• Analyze trends, bandwidth utilization, and capacity planning data
• Identify recurring infrastructure issues and recommend improvements

Network & Systems Integration

Integrate SolarWinds With

• Active Directory
• BMC Remedy/Helix ITSM
• Email/SMS alerting systems
• SNMP, WMI, Syslog, and API-based monitoring

Support Monitoring For

• Routers
• Switches
• Firewalls
• Wireless infrastructure
• Virtual environments
• Cloud resources

Security & Compliance

• Manage role-based access control (RBAC)
• Maintain secure configurations and credential management
• Support audit and compliance reporting
• Apply vendor security updates and patches

Troubleshooting & Support

• Troubleshoot monitoring gaps and polling failures
• Resolve SolarWinds platform performance issues
• Coordinate with infrastructure teams during outages
• Support root cause analysis and incident response efforts

Minimum Requirements

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Required Skills/Experience

• 4 years — Required — Administration and support of the SolarWinds Orion Platform (NPM, NCM, SAM, and related modules), including platform upgrades, patching, and new feature adoption.
• 4 years — Required — Familiarity with virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V) – 3 years
• 4 years — Required — Monitor and maintain a large-scale enterprise environment (1500+ devices)
• 4 years — Required — Design, implement, and optimize alerting strategies to reduce noise and improve response times
• 4 years — Required — Build and maintain NOC dashboards and executive reports for real-time and historical visibility
• 4 years — Required — Develop custom SQL queries and reports for availability, performance, and capacity tracking
• 4 years — Required — Automate workflows using tools like Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Teams, and Power BI
• 4 years — Required — Perform troubleshooting of monitoring issues, polling failures, and platform services
• 4 years — Required — Collaboration with network and infrastructure teams for root cause analysis and incident resolution
• 4 years — Required — Maintain documentation, standards, and monitoring best practices
• 4 years — Required — Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills

Preferred Skills/Experience

• 4 years — Preferred — Network engineering experience-Cisco, Meraki, Fortinet, Juniper
• 4 years — Preferred — Public-sector or regulated environment experience
• 4 years — Preferred — Knowledge of networking fundamentals (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, routing/switching)
• 4 years — Preferred — SOP development and continuous improvement methodologies