Senior DevOps Engineer – MQTT/IIoT

Job summary

The Senior DevOps Engineer builds and operates edge-to-cloud infrastructure for industrial IoT applications, connecting manufacturing and operational technology systems with enterprise and cloud platforms. The role deploys HiveMQ brokers and HighByte Intelligence Hub, automates infrastructure and CI/CD, and supports secure, highly available data pipelines using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, MQTT, and OPC UA.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, cloud, or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on experience with MQTT and IIoT platforms.
• Experience deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting HiveMQ brokers.
• Experience installing, configuring, deploying, upgrading, or operationally supporting HighByte Intelligence Hub.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent tools.
• Infrastructure automation experience with Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Strong Linux administration and scripting skills.
• Experience with Azure or AWS cloud environments.
• Understanding of industrial and OT connectivity, particularly OPC UA and MQTT.
• Experience supporting highly available, secure, production-grade environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, automate, and maintain DevOps infrastructure for IIoT applications.
• Deploy and administer HiveMQ brokers, including configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, security, and scalability.
• Deploy and manage HighByte Intelligence Hub and industrial data pipelines.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Containerize applications with Docker and manage deployments with Kubernetes.
• Support edge-to-cloud data pipelines connecting PLC, SCADA, MES, historian, ERP, and cloud systems.
• Configure and troubleshoot industrial connectivity using MQTT, OPC UA, REST APIs, and TCP/IP.
• Monitor infrastructure, brokers, edge applications, and data pipelines through logging, alerting, and observability.
• Apply DevSecOps practices for access management, secrets, certificates, vulnerability management, and secure deployments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve availability, performance, security, and scalability.

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Contract length

Relocation