Azure IoT Engineer job at AIS - Applied Information Sciences in Groton, CT

Title: Azure IoT Engineer Location: Groton, CT Hybrid Full time Job Description: 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. What are we looking for? 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. Working@AIS 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. Project Summary 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. Key Responsibilities 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. Required For This Opportunity 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 and data pipelines into cloud data platforms for monitoring, analytics, or predictive maintenance. Ability to work onsite in industrial or shipyard environments, collaborating with mechanical, electrical, and operations teams to instrument equipment and troubleshoot sensor integrations. Nice to Have Skills Experience with industrial IoT deployments in manufacturing, maritime, or energy sectors Familiarity with predictive maintenance solutions Experience with Azure Machine Learning for equipment analytics Knowledge of SCADA systems and industrial monitoring platforms Experience integrating with CMMS or asset management systems Certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty; Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect; or Industrial IoT Certifications At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $102,000-$154,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process. Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job