Lead Industrial loT Software Engineer

Description Our client in the FMCG industry is currently looking to employ a Lead Industrial IoT Software Engineer based in Cape Town. A wonderful career opportunity awaits you! Requirements:

• 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 2+ technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, operation systems, virtualization, security, networking, data & analytics, AI/ML) experience.
• Have a bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science or similar degree.
• Familiarity with common web application architectures and infrastructure needs, such as load balancing, caching, and message queues, authentication.
• Proficiency in mainstream relational databases and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with DevOps practices, better be familiar with containerization technologies, automation deployment tools.
• Familiarity with AWS able to design and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Enthusiasm for learning new emerging technologies and maintaining a keen insight into industry development trends.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to clearly express technical solutions.
• Any of the following AWS Certifications:
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• AWS Certified Developer.
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.
• AWS Certified Security.

• Maintain and operate an IoT platform on Amazon Web Services.
• Develop new solutions for the food industry utilizing the IoT platform.

• Proficiency in languages like Python, C++, and Java for developing embedded software and applications.

• Understanding of IoT-specific protocols such as MQTT, CoAP, and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for data exchange between devices and the cloud.

• Knowledge of how microcontrollers and sensors work, including concepts like GPIO, SPI, I2C, and analog/digital conversion.

• Expertise in implementing encryption, secure communication, authentication mechanisms, and secure coding practices to protect IoT devices and user data.

• Familiarity with AWS IoT services and their capabilities for managing, analyzing, and visualizing data from IoT devices.

• Ability to process and analyze large amounts of IoT data to provide valuable insights for improving applications.

• Understanding of networking concepts like IP addressing, routing, and subnets for IoT devices to communicate over the internet.

• Proficiency in tools like Git for efficient management of the codebase, especially when collaborating on IoT projects.

• Skills to organize, monitor, and respond to events for fleets of IoT devices using AWS IoT Device Management, AWS IoT Device Defender, and AWS IoT Core.

• Ability to design devices to receive and apply updates, and to send updates and monitor progress using AWS IoT Device Management Jobs.

• Designing the IoT solution's architecture to meet current and future data ingestion requirements, considering scale, cost, security, and performance.