DevOps, Senior

At Solar Winds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.

The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose.

If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join Solar Winds and grow with us!

We are looking for a Senior Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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 , 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 , Azure, AWS, and other enterprise platforms.

Partner with Security, IAM, Audit, and People teams on access controls, compliance activities, andremediation work.

Automation and Dev Ops practices

Automate repetitive infrastructure, access, and operational tasks using Power Shell, 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, Git Hub, 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, Dev Ops, 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, Dev Ops, SRE, or IT operations.

Hands-on experience with Azure, Active Directory/Entra , 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 Power Shell.

Familiarity with Terraform, infrastructure as code, configuration management, or CI/CD tools.

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