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Management level: Individual contributor
Employment: Remote
Contract: Full-time

Compensation

No salary listed for this role.

Role speciality

Edge ComputingIndustrial IoT

Useful technologies

ARMDockerDocker ComposeDocker SwarmLinuxModbusMQTTOPC UAPortainersystemd

Original posting

We're looking for a Edge Platform Engineer to help operate and modernize one of the world's largest industrial edge computing deployments.

You'll work with a fleet of more than 100,000 connected edge devices running Docker-based applications in challenging real-world environments where connectivity is intermittent, bandwidth is constrained, and devices may remain offline for extended periods.

This role combines Docker platform engineering, edge computing, networking, deployment automation, troubleshooting, and customer collaboration. You'll work directly with enterprise customers and our engineering team to solve complex operational problems at scale.

If you've worked with industrial IoT, edge gateways, manufacturing systems, mining, energy, transportation, or other distributed edge environments, we'd love to hear from you.

Requirements

What We're Looking For

Required

Strong commercial experience with Docker and Docker Compose.
Experience with IoT and Industrial IoT (IIoT)
Experience supporting Linux systems in production.
Experience deploying applications to remote or distributed edge environments.
Experience operating systems across unreliable, high-latency, or bandwidth-constrained networks.
Strong understanding of container networking.
Experience in Edge Computing
Experience troubleshooting production systems remotely.
Familiarity with container image optimization and multi-stage Docker builds.
Strong Linux troubleshooting skills.
Excellent customer communication skills.

Highly Desirable

Experience with one or more of:

IoT gateways
Manufacturing automation
Connected vehicles
Mining
Energy
Oil & Gas
Utilities
Retail edge deployments
Smart factories
Industrial networking

Experience with:

Docker Swarm
Portainer
MQTT
OPC-UA
Modbus
Edge gateways
VPN technologies
Reverse proxies
mTLS
Embedded Linux
ARM devices
Systemd
Shell scripting

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