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SolarWinds Specialist
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SolarWinds Specialist
6-Month Contract | ASAP Start | £420 per day (Inside IR35) | Hybrid - Wiltshire
We're seeking an experienced SolarWinds Specialist to join a major enterprise environment supporting the delivery of critical observability and monitoring initiatives. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in enhancing monitoring capabilities, reducing technical backlog, and improving operational resilience across a large-scale infrastructure estate.
Working alongside internal infrastructure, application, and service management teams, you'll help drive monitoring improvements, automation, alert optimisation, and platform enhancements across Windows and Linux environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, configure, administer, and optimise SolarWinds Orion Platform solutions.
- Onboard servers, applications, and infrastructure components into the monitoring estate.
- Enhance alerting, event management, and operational visibility across critical services.
- Investigate monitoring-related incidents, perform root cause analysis, and support issue resolution.
- Install and configure SolarWinds agents across existing infrastructure where required.
- Drive continuous improvements through alert optimisation and automation initiatives.
- Support the creation and maintenance of operational and technical documentation.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and service management teams to improve monitoring coverage and service visibility.
- Contribute to observability improvements including ServiceNow integrations, CMDB alignment, APM, DEM, and Azure monitoring initiatives.
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Required Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience administering and configuring the SolarWinds Orion Platform.
- Proven experience supporting enterprise-scale monitoring environments.
- Strong Windows Server administration experience.
- Linux administration and monitoring expertise.
- Experience with event management, alerting, and monitoring automation.
- Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
- Strong documentation and stakeholder communication abilities.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within technical teams.
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Desirable Experience
- ServiceNow integration and ITSM process knowledge.
- Network and infrastructure monitoring expertise.
- Experience implementing monitoring standards, governance, and operational best practices.
- Exposure to Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), and Azure monitoring capabilities.
If you have strong SolarWinds expertise and enjoy improving monitoring capability within enterprise environments, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply promptly to be considered.
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