Technical Contrcator

SolarWinds Engineer / SolarWinds Technical Consultant – Contract

Location: Durrington, West Sussex (Hybrid)

Contract: 6 months

Day Rate: £500 per day

Job Type: Contract

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for an experienced SolarWinds Engineer / SolarWinds Technical Consultant to support a major enterprise IT infrastructure and observability improvement programme.

This six-month contract offers the opportunity to work hands-on with the SolarWinds Orion Platform, improving infrastructure monitoring, alerting, event management and operational visibility across a complex Windows Server, Linux and VMware environment.You will work alongside infrastructure, application support and IT service management teams to enhance monitoring capabilities, reduce outstanding technical work and improve service reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, configure and optimise the SolarWinds Orion monitoring platform.
• Design and implement infrastructure monitoring solutions across Windows and Linux servers.
• Onboard servers, network devices and applications into SolarWinds monitoring.
• Configure SolarWinds agents, alerts, events and monitoring thresholds.
• Troubleshoot monitoring incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Improve alert management, event correlation and monitoring automation.
• Support monitoring across VMware-based, on-premises infrastructure.
• Assist with ServiceNow integration, ITSM processes and CMDB alignment.
• Support observability improvements involving APM, DEM and Azure monitoring.
• Produce technical documentation and monitoring standards.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong hands-on SolarWinds Orion Platform administration and configuration.
• Experience implementing and supporting SolarWinds monitoring solutions.
• Windows Server and Linux infrastructure administration.
• Infrastructure monitoring, event management, alerting and automation.
• Troubleshooting, incident management and root cause analysis.
• Experience supporting complex enterprise IT environments.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with technical stakeholders.

Desirable Skills

• ServiceNow integration and IT Service Management (ITSM).
• Network monitoring and infrastructure observability.
• VMware infrastructure monitoring.
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) or Azure monitoring.
• Monitoring governance and operational documentation.