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SolarWinds

IT infrastructure management and observability software

Systems Engineering Manager

System AdministrationPosted on Nov 9
Full-timeAustin, TX, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience leading or mentoring systems engineering, infrastructure, cloud, or IT operations teams.
  • Strong experience with enterprise systems and cloud operations, including Microsoft Azure.
  • Experience with Windows Server and identity platforms such as Active Directory or Entra ID.
  • Familiarity with virtualization platforms such as VMware.
  • Practical experience with scripting and automation, such as PowerShell or Python.
  • Good judgment in incident, change, and access-management processes, with a focus on security and service quality.
  • Clear communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships across technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop systems engineers. Set priorities, support growth, and build shared team knowledge and coverage.
  • Own the reliability and lifecycle of corporate infrastructure and services, including cloud platforms, enterprise systems, identity, and virtualization.
  • Set an automation roadmap for provisioning, access and service-account lifecycle, infrastructure changes, and operational reporting.
  • Improve self-service and service catalog experiences so common requests are consistent, secure, and easy to complete.
  • Guide incident response, problem management, change planning, and operational readiness. Maintain clear ownership, documentation, and recovery procedures.
  • Work across IT, Security, Audit, and Engineering to turn business needs into reliable, well-supported services.
  • Track service health and improvement through measures such as availability, request turnaround, self-service adoption, and operational risk.

Desired Qualifications

  • AWS experience is valuable.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools is an advantage.
  • Operating enterprise cloud environments, including Azure or AWS governance, networking, monitoring, and cost management.
  • Managing identity and access controls, including privileged access, service accounts, access reviews, and credential rotation.
  • Building infrastructure automation with PowerShell, Python, Terraform, or other similar tools.
  • Improving IT service management through service catalogs, request and change workflows, incident/problem management, and self-service.
  • Maintaining security and audit controls, vulnerability remediation, and evidence for frameworks such as SOX, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.
  • Service-account management, access reviews, or audit frameworks such as SOX, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.

About the Company

SolarWinds

IT infrastructure management and observability software

SolarWinds provides IT management and observability software that helps organizations monitor and manage their networks, systems, databases, and applications across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Its SolarWinds Platform collects performance data from devices and services and presents dashboards, alerts, and automated workflows to detect issues and guide resolutions. It differentiates itself with a single, unified platform that spans network, systems, apps, and IT service management, with strong multi-cloud support and a broad partner ecosystem. Its goal is to help IT teams and MSPs prevent outages, optimize performance, and maintain security and compliance across large, diverse environments.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founded
1999

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