Senior Infrastructure Engineer

SolarWinds is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer with 4+ years of experience to help build, operate, and improve the systems that support our products and internal platforms. This role is ideal for someone who is hands-on, dependable, and comfortable working across AWS, Linux, and MySQL environments in a production setting.

The right candidate has a strong foundation in infrastructure operations, enjoys solving problems in live environments, and understands the importance of reliability, automation, and operational discipline. This role includes participation in an on-call rotation. Experience with Kubernetes is a plus

Responsibilities

• Manage and support production and non-production infrastructure running in AWS
• Administer, monitor, and troubleshoot Linux-based systems and services
• Support MySQL environments, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, maintenance, and operational health
• Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to infrastructure and service-related incidents
• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance through automation and operational best practices
• Partner with engineering teams to deploy, maintain, and optimize infrastructure services
• Troubleshoot issues across compute, storage, networking, operating systems, and databases
• Document processes, operational procedures, and runbooks to improve team effectiveness
• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts around monitoring, alerting, patching, and capacity planning

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related role
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-based infrastructure
• Solid experience administering and troubleshooting MySQL in production environments
• Strong Linux systems administration skills
• Experience supporting production services and participating in an on-call rotation
• Experience with either Ansible, Salt, Chef and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management
• Familiarity with scripting or automation for operational tasks using Bash and Python
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work through complex technical issues methodically
• Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with docker or other container orchestration platforms
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation tools
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms
• Experience working in high-availability or customer-facing production environments
• Ownership mindset and strong operational discipline
• Ability to stay calm and effective during incidents
• Willingness to learn, improve systems, and drive reliability-focused changes
• Practical approach to solving infrastructure and operational problems
• Team player who values clear communication and documentation
• On-call expectations: This position requires participation in a scheduled on-call rotation to support production systems and help ensure service reliability.