FDA SolarWinds Administrator

Job#: 3056647

Job Description:

SolarWinds Administrator

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Location: Remote

Pay Rate: $45-55 / hr

Clearance: USC eligible to obtain Public Trust

Role Overview

This organization is seeking an experienced SolarWinds Administrator to provide essential technical support for the enterprise network monitoring and observability platform. The successful candidate will oversee the administration, configuration, maintenance, and optimization of the SolarWinds Orion platform and its associated modules. This position operates within a federal IT environment, ensuring continuous visibility into the health, performance, and availability of critical IT systems, networks, and applications while adhering to established security and compliance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain the SolarWinds Orion platform and its modules, including NPM, SAM, NTA, IPAM, and NCM, across the enterprise environment.
• Develop, tune, and manage dashboards, alerts, and reports to facilitate proactive identification of infrastructure issues across servers, network devices, and applications.
• Manage the discovery, polling, and onboarding of new network nodes, servers, and devices in coordination with network and systems engineering teams.
• Serve as a primary resource during infrastructure incidents, leveraging monitoring data to assist in root cause analysis and resolution.
• Maintain comprehensive, current documentation for platform architecture, configurations, standard operating procedures, and system changes.
• Collaborate with network engineers, system administrators, security teams, and IT management to align monitoring capabilities with operational requirements.

Required Qualifications

Education: A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred, or equivalent professional experience.

Experience: Proven hands-on experience administering the SolarWinds Orion platform, including the management of at least two core modules such as NPM, SAM, NTA, NCM, or IPAM.

Technical Skills: Strong understanding of network protocols including SNMP, NetFlow, syslog, ICMP, and TCP/IP networking fundamentals. Proficiency with Windows Server administration and familiarity with SQL Server queries, database maintenance, and performance tuning related to the SolarWinds database are required. Candidates must also possess a solid understanding of IT monitoring best practices and ITSM frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• SolarWinds Certified Professional certification.
• CompTIA Network+, CCNA, or CompTIA Security+ certifications.
• ITIL Foundation certification.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for documentation and cross-team coordination.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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Employee Type:

Contract

Remote:

Yes

Location:

Home, DC, US

Job Type:

Date Posted:

October 21, 2026

Pay Range:

$45 - $55 per hour

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