Job Description

Western Cape, CPT - Northern SuburbsMonthly Cost To Company (Market related)Our client in the FMCG industry is currently looking to employ a Lead Industrial loT 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, Al/ML) experience.
• Have a bachelors 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.

Responsibilities and expectations but not limited to:

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

Programming Languages

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

Communication Protocols

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

Embedded Systems

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

Security

• Expertise in implementing encryption, secure communication, authentication mechanisms, and secure coding practices to protect loT

devices and user data.
Cloud Services

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

Data Analytics

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

Networking

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

Version Control

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

Device Management

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

Over-the-Air (OTA) Updates

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

Data Ingestion

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

Please note should you not receive a response within two weeks of applying you may assume that your application was unsuccessful.

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