Role Overview

We are seeking a Network Automation Engineer with deep SolarWinds expertise to modernize and automate the management of our existing production network infrastructure. In this role, you will move beyond basic monitoring to unlock the full automation, orchestration, and configuration management capabilities of the SolarWinds platform.

Your mission will be to eliminate manual workflows by leveraging SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM), Orion SDK, and API integrations to build a highly automated, self-healing, and compliant network environment.

Key Responsibilities

1. SolarWinds Automation & Orchestration

● Design, implement, and maintain advanced automation workflows primarily using SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) and Orion SDK/SolarWinds Information Service (SWIS).

● Develop custom Python, PowerShell, or Ansible scripts that interface with the SolarWinds API to automate routine provisioning, patching, and configuration tasks.

● Build automated compliance reports and remediation scripts within NCM to automatically correct policy violations across multi-vendor network devices.

2. Legacy Network Modernization & Remediation

● Audit existing manual network processes and translate them into automated SolarWinds alerting actions, scripts, and job schedules where appropriate.

● Leverage SolarWinds alerting engines to trigger automated troubleshooting and self-healing scripts (e.g., auto-remediating interface flaps or routing anomalies).

● Maintain gold-standard configuration templates within SolarWinds to ensure consistency across routers, switches, and firewalls.

3. Integration & Telemetry Expansion

● Integrate SolarWinds with external IT Service Management (ITSM) systems like ServiceNow or Jira to automate ticket creation, updating, and closure based on network events.

● Connect SolarWinds with IPAM (IP Address Management) and database systems to automate subnet allocations and inventory tracking.

● Customize SolarWinds dashboards,



PerfStack, and NetPath to provide real-time, automated visibility into complex network paths and performance metrics.

4. Governance & Training

● Manage the health, scaling, and polling efficiency of the SolarWinds infrastructure itself (Additional Polling Engines, SQL database optimization for monitoring data).

● Act as the internal Subject Matter Expert (SME) to train traditional network engineers on how to utilize SolarWinds automation features safely.

● Document automation intents, workflows, codebases, standard operating procedures, expected results and error handling to empower the broader team.

Qualifications & Skills

Technical Requirements

● SolarWinds Mastery: Deep, hands-on experience with the SolarWinds Orion suite, specifically NCM (Network Configuration Manager), NPM (Network Performance Monitor), and NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA).

● API & Scripting: Strong proficiency in scripting against the SolarWinds API (SwisPowerShell or the orionsdk Python library) to extract data and push configuration changes.

● Network Engineering: Robust foundational knowledge of traditional networking (TCP/IP, switching, VLANs, routing protocols like BGP/OSPF and security/firewalls) in a multi-vendor environment (e.g., Cisco, Aruba, NetScaler, etc.).

● Systems Integration: Experience writing scripts to parse XML/JSON data and interacting with REST/SOAP APIs of external systems.

● Database Knowledge: Familiarity with SQL/SWQL (SolarWinds Query Language) for creating advanced custom reports and data manipulation.

Soft Skills & Experience

● Experience: 2+ years in Network Engineering, with at least 1 years focused heavily on managing and automating networks via SolarWinds.

● Analytical Mindset: Ability to look at a manual troubleshooting process and map out the programmatic logic required for SolarWinds to handle it automatically.

● Risk Management: Extreme care when deploying automated change scripts across production environments, including robust validation and rollback planning.

📌 Network Automation Engineer (SolarWinds Administrator) (Chennai)
🏢 RRD Global
📍 Chennai