DevOps Engineer – IIoT

Job Description: DevOps Engineer – IIoT

• Location: Groton, CT
• Duration: 6 Months
• GBaMS ReqID: 11032877

Role Overview

• Looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong exposure to Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments.
• Must have hands-on experience with MQTT/IIoT platforms, particularly HiveMQ and HighByte Intelligence Hub.
• Direct experience with HiveMQ and/or HighByte Intelligence Hub is strongly preferred.
• The role involves supporting deployment, automation, configuration, monitoring, and operational reliability of edge-to-cloud solutions connecting manufacturing/OT systems with enterprise and cloud platforms.
• Requires a combination of DevOps, cloud, containerization, MQTT infrastructure, HighByte, and OT/IT integration skills.

Experience Requirements

• 5+ years of overall DevOps, Cloud, or Infrastructure experience.
• Demonstrable hands-on exposure to MQTT/IIoT platforms.
• Experience supporting secure, scalable, and highly available production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, automate, and maintain DevOps infrastructure supporting IIoT applications.
• Deploy and administer HiveMQ MQTT broker environments, including configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, security, and scalability.
• Deploy and manage HighByte Intelligence Hub and associated industrial data pipelines.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform.
• Use configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible.
• Containerize workloads using Docker and manage deployments on 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, TCP/IP, and related protocols.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for infrastructure, MQTT brokers, edge applications, and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve availability, performance, security, scalability, and deployment consistency.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, certificates, authentication, connectivity, and data-flow issues across OT, edge, and cloud environments.
• Implement DevSecOps practices covering access management, secrets, certificates, vulnerability management, and secure deployments.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong hands-on DevOps/Cloud Engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with HiveMQ, including MQTT broker deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with HighByte Intelligence Hub, ideally including installation, configuration, deployment, upgrades, and operational support.
• Strong understanding of MQTT architecture, topics, publishers/subscribers, QoS, connectivity, and security.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• CI/CD experience using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent tools.
• Infrastructure automation using Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Strong Linux administration and scripting skills.
• Experience with Azure or AWS cloud environments.
• Understanding of industrial/OT connectivity, particularly OPC UA and MQTT.
• Experience supporting highly available, secure, production-grade environments.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Azure IoT Hub.
• Azure Event Hubs.

Essential Skills

• 5+ years of overall DevOps/Cloud/Infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on exposure to MQTT/IIoT platforms.
• Strong preference for direct experience with HiveMQ and/or HighByte Intelligence Hub.
• Experience designing, deploying, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting HiveMQ MQTT broker environments.