| Location | Groton, CT |
| Salary | $60.60 Per Hour |
Location: Groton, CT
Duration: 6 Months
GBaMS ReqID: 11032877
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.
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.
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.
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.
Azure IoT Hub.
Azure Event Hubs.
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.