IoT Systems Engineer

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Full Time Chisago City, MN, US

6 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $80,000.00 To $ Annually

We’re a growing manufacturer serving the IT infrastructure field, with a no-nonsense attitude: stay humble, work hard, and take on challenges head-first. Around here, you won’t just “do your job” — you’ll be part of a team that builds, solves, and delivers products we’re proud to put our name on. The benefits and pay are solid, but the real perk is being part of something that matters alongside people who care just as much as you do.

• Supplemental insurance options
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid holidays

Job Summary:

Kendall Howard is seeking an IoT Systems Engineer to build, deploy, and maintain the edge-to-cloud infrastructure that powers our next generation industrial telemetry platform. This hands‑on engineering role is responsible for the messaging infrastructure, networking, and cloud connectivity that securely moves machine and battery telemetry from customer equipment into cloud‑based storage and analytics platforms.

Working alongside an established Controls Engineering team and a dedicated Data Engineering counterpart, you will play a critical role in designing and scaling a reliable, secure, and resilient telemetry pipeline. As an early technical contributor on a growing platform, you'll have the opportunity to influence architecture, engineering standards, and long‑term scalability while helping deliver innovative industrial IoT solutions.

The position is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex connectivity challenges, working across operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) environments, and building systems that perform reliably in real‑world industrial applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain MQTT brokers or comparable publish/subscribe messaging infrastructure receiving telemetry from industrial equipment.
• Implement and support industrial communication protocols including MQTT and OPC‑UA for secure telemetry transmission from the plant floor to cloud services.
• Design, build, and maintain secure network connectivity between edge devices and cloud infrastructure, including firewall traversal, segmentation, and secure communication across OT/IT boundaries.
• Collaborate with Controls Engineering to define telemetry payloads, topic architecture, data contracts, quality‑of‑service settings, and TLS certificate management.
• Support controller‑side integration, testing, validation, and field commissioning related to telemetry publishing and data delivery.

Telemetry Pipeline Development

• Develop and maintain telemetry ingestion services transporting CAN‑based battery and machine data from industrial controllers to cloud storage.
• Ensure reliable delivery through buffering, retry mechanisms, and reconnection strategies for equipment operating in environments with intermittent connectivity.
• Deliver validated, structured telemetry to downstream data platforms while maintaining established platform data contracts.

Cloud Infrastructure Operations

• Build and operate containerized cloud services supporting telemetry ingestion and processing.
• Deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure‑as‑Code methods.
• Implement secrets management, logging, monitoring, and operational observability throughout the telemetry pipeline.
• Partner with internal IT to provision, configure, and maintain cloud environments supporting production systems.

Security & Fleet Operations

• Implement remote monitoring, diagnostics, and alerting capabilities for deployed equipment.
• Maintain the security posture of the telemetry pipeline through secure connectivity, TLS encryption, credential management, access controls, certificate lifecycle management, and audit logging.
• Establish scalable connectivity and security standards as the deployed fleet grows.

Reliability & Technical Support

• Diagnose and resolve connectivity, networking, and telemetry pipeline issues affecting deployed systems.
• Support engineering and…