IoT Platform Engineer (AWS)
IoT Platform Engineer (AWS) – Contract Engagement Type: Contract (1–3 months, potential extension) Location: Remote (U.S. time zones) Start: ASAP Reports To: IT / Platform Engineering $65/hour 1099 Role Overview Seeking a hands-on IoT Platform Engineer with deep AWS expertise to take ownership of an existing, production IoT platform deployed across multiple customer locations. This role focuses on stabilization, operational excellence, technical debt reduction, documentation, and knowledge transfer rather than greenfield development. The ideal candidate brings strong experience supporting live, customer-facing systems, improving reliability, and implementing cloud best practices, observability, and Infrastructure as Code to enable long-term maintainability.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Stabilization & Support
- Own day-to-day operations of a production AWS IoT platform
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues across ingestion, processing, visualization, and alerting layers
- Identify reliability gaps, performance bottlenecks, and technical debt
- Implement pragmatic improvements to increase stability and scalability
Documentation & Knowledge Transfer
- Document provisioning workflows for devices and equipment
- Capture IoT Core onboarding, SiteWise asset modeling, and data flows
- Produce Grafana dashboard documentation and data source mapping
- Create architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, and support guides
Provisioning & Configuration Standardization
- Review and streamline provisioning/deployment processes
- Standardize configurations across environments
- Implement or improve Infrastructure as Code practices (Terraform/CloudFormation)
Cloud Operations & Security
- Audit and optimize IAM roles and permissions
- Strengthen logging, monitoring, and alerting
- Enhance platform observability and operational resilience
- Apply AWS cloud security best practices
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with engineering and operations teams
- Provide regular status updates and risk assessments
- Deliver a comprehensive handoff enabling internal team ownership
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of AWS cloud engineering experience
- Hands-on production experience with AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT SiteWise
- Experience supporting live, customer-facing platforms
- AWS Lambda development using Python or Node.js
- Strong understanding of IoT data pipelines and distributed cloud architectures
- Experience with monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Amazon Managed Grafana
- Background in industrial, manufacturing, or facilities IoT environments
- Experience stabilizing or taking over existing platforms
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
- Experience improving observability and operational maturity
Deliverables & Success Criteria
- Production issues remediated or documented with clear action plans
- Complete provisioning, onboarding, and operational documentation
- Standardized device/equipment/site onboarding processes
- Improved monitoring, alerting, and system reliability
- Successful knowledge transfer enabling independent internal support
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