Why This Role Stands Out
This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to leverage your extensive SolarWinds expertise to modernize a large enterprise's monitoring capabilities, driving significant impact and professional growth. If you excel in architectural assessments, strategic planning, and collaborating with stakeholders, you'll thrive in this challenging and rewarding consulting position. Apply now to shape the future of enterprise monitoring!
Quick Overview
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Las Vegas, NV, United States
Posted
1 week ago
SQLSQL ServerDatadog
Job Description
Senior SolarWinds Architect / Monitoring Consultant
The Opportunity: We are seeking a Senior SolarWinds Architect / Monitoring Consultant to lead an assessment and optimization initiative for a large enterprise monitoring environment. The initial engagement will focus on evaluating the current SolarWinds deployment, identifying opportunities for improvement, and developing a strategic roadmap to modernize monitoring capabilities.
This is a consulting-focused role requiring deep technical expertise in SolarWinds architecture, enterprise infrastructure monitoring, and operational observability. The successful consultant will work closely with technical and business stakeholders to assess the current environment, provide architectural recommendations, and help establish a phased modernization strategy.
Role: Senior SolarWinds Architect / Monitoring Consultant
Experience: 10+ Years
Work Location: Las Vegas, NV (Hybrid)
Responsibilities
• Assess an existing enterprise SolarWinds deployment and identify opportunities for optimization and modernization
• Evaluate current SolarWinds licensing and module utilization, mapping available capabilities to operational requirements
• Review overall platform architecture, scalability, resilience, and performance
• Develop recommendations for high availability, failover, polling architecture, SQL optimization, and platform performance
• Design monitoring strategies that extend beyond basic infrastructure availability to include application health and service visibility
• Improve alerting, dashboards, reporting, and operational workflows to reduce alert fatigue and improve actionable insights
• Evaluate event log collection, syslog integration, synthetic transaction monitoring, and operational observability capabilities
• Assess monitoring coverage across servers, virtualization, networking, storage, voice, and hybrid infrastructure
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, discovery workshops, and current-state assessments
• Deliver customer-facing documentation, findings, architectural recommendations, and phased implementation roadmaps
Required Qualifications
• 10+ years of experience designing and supporting enterprise monitoring solutions
• Deep hands-on expertise with SolarWinds, including:
o Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
o Server & Application Monitor (SAM)
o Log Analyzer
o IP Address Manager (IPAM)
o User Device Tracker (UDT)
o VoIP & Network Quality Manager (VNQM)
o Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
• Experience assessing underutilized or partially deployed SolarWinds environments
• Strong understanding of:
o High Availability
o Performance tuning
o Polling architecture
o SQL Server dependencies
o Enterprise monitoring best practices
• Experience monitoring Windows servers, network infrastructure, virtualization platforms, and enterprise applications
• Strong knowledge of:
o Windows Server
o WMI
o SNMP
o Syslog
o SQL Server
• Experience troubleshooting agent-based and agentless monitoring
• Excellent communication, consulting, and customer-facing presentation skills
• Experience facilitating discovery workshops and developing executive-ready recommendations
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with application performance and observability platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics
• Familiarity with Cisco enterprise monitoring platforms and NetFlow technologies
• Experience supporting hospitality, gaming, or other 24x7 operational environments
• Experience with hybrid infrastructure and enterprise ITSM integrations
• Experience delivering knowledge transfer and operational training following implementation
Similar jobs
- SP
Business Planning Analyst
NewSPECTRUM
Stamford, Connecticut🇺🇸Hybrid29 minutes agoTableauBudgetingFinancial Analysis+4 - UG
Part Time Patient Access Representative Intermediate
UnitedHealth Group
FRIDLEY, MN🇺🇸$18 - $32/hrOn-site1 week ago401kCall CenterMedical Billing+3 - B/
Management Analyst, Senior
NewBowhead / UIC Technical Services
Patuxent River, Maryland🇺🇸Hybrid1 hour agoBusiness AnalysisMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft PowerPoint+1 - A|
Talent Coordinator
NewAshley | The Wellsville Group
Buffalo, New York🇺🇸$21 - $23/hrHybrid2 hours agoADPBrandingLearning & Development+4 - OM
Part-time Mobile Home Community Manager
NewOsprey Management
Pacific, Missouri🇺🇸$24/hrHybrid2 hours agoComplianceMicrosoft OfficeReconciliation+1 - WA
Brake Press Opertor - All shifts
NewWELDALL AND COMPANIES
Waukesha, Wisconsin🇺🇸Hybrid2 hours agoBlueprint ReadingComplianceSAFe+2