Network Engineer (IoT) - 18 months Contract

Contract Period: 18 Months

Working Location: Central / 2 days WFH

Role Overview 

We are seeking an experienced Network Engineer with strong IoT and telemetry systems expertise to support the design and implementation of a technology platform. The role will focus on field device connectivity, open-standard data protocols, edge communications, and reliable data transmission from environmental sensors and data loggers into a central ingestion platform. 

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience working across the full telemetry lifecycle, from sensor and data logger integration to operational device monitoring, buffering, and bidirectional communication with cloud or central data systems. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Serve as a technical lead for IoT connectivity, telemetry integration, and field-to-platform communication design. 

• Design and implement communication flows between automatic weather stations, data loggers, and the central ingestion platform. 

• Work with environmental telemetry equipment, commercial data loggers, and equivalent field instrumentation systems. 

• Develop integrations using open-standard IoT protocols such as MQTT or equivalent messaging protocols. 

• Implement edge-side data buffering and retry strategies to handle intermittent cellular or field network connectivity. 

• Support device state monitoring, sensor inventory tracking, calibration offset handling, and operational management workflows. 

• Perform low-level data manipulation, including byte stream parsing, bitwise operations, and Big-Endian/Little-Endian data handling. 

• Collaborate with data engineers, service designers, field technicians, and project stakeholders to validate end-to-end system behaviour. 

• Contribute to technical documentation, integration specifications, and operational handover materials. 

Required Skills and Experience 

• Strong experience designing or implementing IoT, telemetry, SCADA-adjacent, or sensor data communication systems. 

• Hands-on experience with data logger integration and environmental sensor platforms. 

• Proficiency in scripting or programming for device communication, data parsing, and protocol handling. 

• Practical experience with MQTT or comparable IoT communication protocols. 

• Good understanding of cellular network reliability issues, offline buffering, retries, and edge connectivity patterns. 

• Ability to troubleshoot field-to-cloud data flows across hardware, network, protocol, and application layers. 

• Strong technical communication skills and ability to work with both engineering and operational teams. 

Good to Have 

• Experience with meteorological, environmental monitoring, utilities, transport, industrial IoT, or mission-critical operational systems. 

• Familiarity with time-series data ingestion, device health monitoring, and calibration workflows. 

• Experience contributing to early-stage platform builds that later transition into production-grade platforms.