AVEVA PI - Technical Specialist

Sentinel; Aberdeen City, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth; Hybrid; GBP 64,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Online GP

24/7 counselling

Cycle to Work

Tech and travel loans

Strong family leave

Job summary

Sentinel in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior AVEVA PI Specialist to own and operate the enterprise AVEVA PI platform. You will manage Data Archive, AF and PI Vision on Azure VMs, ensuring high availability and security.

The role focuses on platform reliability, upgrades, DR testing and lifecycle planning, with scope to drive analytics and AI integrations. SC clearance is required; visa sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• Hands-on administration of AVEVA/OSIsoft PI in production.
• Experience with PI Interfaces, Connectors and integrations (OPC focus).
• Strong troubleshooting, monitoring and resilience skills for a critical system.
• Understanding OT/SCADA and industrial control environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the full PI stack: Data Archive, AF and PI Vision.
• Keep the platform available, secure, resilient and performant.
• Configure and troubleshoot PI Interfaces, Connectors, SDKs and APIs.
• Lead upgrades, patching, DR testing and lifecycle planning.
• Shape the platform's future for analytics/AI use cases.

Skills

PI Platform administration

PI Interfaces & Connectors

OPC experience

Troubleshooting & resilience

Tools

Aveva PI

OPC

Azure

Job description

Senior AVEVA PI Specialist (OSIsoft PI Platform Owner)

Permanent | £64,000 - £76,500 + benefits | Hybrid - Aberdeen, Glasgow, Inverness or Perth

This is a platform role, not a data analysis role.

We're looking for the person who keeps the PI system running: administering, patching, upgrading, troubleshooting and designing it. This is not a role for someone whose main experience is building reports from PI data.

The opportunity

A major UK business requires a permanent technical owner for its enterprise AVEVA PI platform. You will become its go-to expert, and you will have a real say in how the platform grows.

The environment

• High-availability PI estate hosted on Azure VMs
• PI Data Archive collective, AF, load-balanced PI Vision and an Analysis/Notifications cluster
• Clustered SQL Back End and a dedicated interface server
• Data arrives through OPC DA, OPC UA and API connectors, including feeds from the OT side
• An established third-party support partner backs you up for upgrades and escalations, so you won't be working alone

What you'll do

• Own the full PI stack: Data Archive, AF, PI Vision and its associated components
• Keep the platform available, secure, resilient and performing well
• Configure and troubleshoot PI Interfaces, Connectors, SDKs and APIs
• Lead upgrades, patching, DR testing, performance tuning and lifecycle planning
• Shape the platform's future, including onward integration for analytics and AI use cases such as predictive maintenance, and options such as AVEVA Connect or Databricks
• Act as the trusted technical contact for users, project teams and suppliers

What you'll bring

• Hands-on administration of AVEVA/OSIsoft PI in a production environment, across Data Archive, AF and PI Vision
• Experience with PI Interfaces, Connectors and integrations, OPC experience in particular
• Strong troubleshooting, monitoring and resilience skills on a business-critical system
• Understanding of OT, SCADA, telemetry or industrial control environments

The practical details

• 50% office-based across the week, with a flexible pattern. For example, two days one week and three the next both work, and full days suit people who live further out.
• No on-call rota. Planned out-of-hours patching and upgrades are paid back as time off in lieu.
• Benefits include private healthcare and gym discounts, an online GP, 24/7 counselling, a Cycle to Work scheme, interest-free tech and travel loans, and strong family leave.
• Interviews are conversational, with no presentation and no technical test.
• SC clearance is required. This normally needs 5 years' UK residency. Visa sponsorship is not available