Azure IoT Engineer

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership:
  Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.
• Continuous Learning:
  Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.
• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.
• Mission-Driven Work:
  Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer.

• Core Knowledge &
  
  Skills:
  
  Designs complex network and hybrid‑cloud solutions; implements security controls, DR/BCP, and automated IaC with deployment pipelines; performs advanced performance tuning.
• Work & Complexity:
  Solves complex issues, designs and delivers new infrastructure solutions, performs capacity planning, and leads advanced automation initiatives.
• Quality & Independence:
  Drives root‑cause analysis, enforces best practices and QA on changes, optimizes for reliability and user experience; operates with high autonomy.
• Teamwork & Communication:
  Leads cross‑functional efforts, mentors juniors, facilitates knowledge transfer, and aligns stakeholders with technical plans.
• Consulting & Engagement:
  Provides strategic input on infrastructure initiatives, recommends advanced technologies, and manages vendor relationships.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Azure IoT Engineer.

AIS supports a Federal contract aiming to connect shipyard industrial equipment IoT sensors to Azure IoT to enable real-time telemetry, predictive maintenance, asset monitoring, and advanced analytics.

• Design and implement end‑to‑end Azure IoT solutions connecting industrial sensors and equipment to Azure.
• Deploy and configure Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Edge, and Azure Digital Twins.
• Design architectures for secure ingestion of telemetry and equipment data into Azure.
• Implement device‑to‑cloud and edge‑to‑cloud communication pipelines.
• Integrate industrial sensors, PLCs, and machine controllers with edge gateways.
• Configure and deploy Azure IoT Edge runtime on industrial gateways.
• Ingest telemetry into Azure services including Azure IoT Hub, Azure Event Hub, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Lake, and Azure Stream Analytics.
• Implement device identity management and certificate‑based authentication.
• Configure CI/CD pipelines for IoT Edge modules.

• Five (5) years of hands‑on experience implementing Azure IoT solutions, including Azure IoT Hub and IoT Edge, to ingest and manage device telemetry.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• Experience integrating industrial sensors, PLCs, or control systems with edge gateways or cloud platforms.
• Working knowledge of industrial communication protocols such as OPC‑UA, Modbus, MQTT, or AMQP.
• Experience deploying and managing edge computing environments using containerized workloads (e.g., Docker) on industrial gateways.
• Proficiency in software development or scripting for device integration or edge modules (e.g., Python, C#, or Node.js).
• Understanding of industrial networking and secure device connectivity, including TLS, certificate‑based authentication, and firewall/network configuration.
• Experience designing telemetry ingestion…