Azure IoT Solutions Architect - Edge & Cloud

Ascend Technologies; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascend Technologies is seeking an Azure IoT Engineer to design, build, and support secure Azure IoT solutions for manufacturing clients. You will own infrastructure from device to cloud, focusing on IoT Edge, identity, security, and scalable deployments.

The role requires hands-on expertise in Azure IoT services, DevOps practices, and secure provisioning. Occasional travel to client locations may be required as projects evolve.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Azure cloud engineering, IoT engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or related roles.
• 3+ years supporting Azure IoT, edge, or distributed infrastructure solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Azure IoT, messaging, storage, monitoring, identity, networking, and security services.
• Experience with IoT protocols, gateways, intermittent connectivity, offline operation, and industrial integration patterns.
• Experience with certificates, PKI, device identity, secure provisioning, Key Vault, secrets, and secure updates.
• Strong Azure networking experience, including private endpoints, DNS, firewalls, VPN/ExpressRoute, routing, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with testing, vulnerability remediation, SBOMs, monitoring, and operational troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Build and support Azure IoT infrastructure, telemetry ingestion, device management, command messaging, and integration services.
• Provision and operate Azure IoT Hub, DPS, IoT Edge, messaging, storage, monitoring, identity, and security services.
• Automate infrastructure and configuration using IaC tools.
• Configure availability, backup, disaster recovery, capacity, performance, and cost controls for IoT workloads.
• Implement Azure networking, private connectivity, routing, and OT/IT segmentation for IoT environments.
• Implement secure device enrollment, provisioning, certificate, and identity patterns.
• Configure and support IoT Edge devices, industrial gateways, container modules, offline operation, diagnostics, and update workflows.
• Coordinate with firmware and embedded teams on device identity, telemetry, commands, configuration, secure updates, and field support.
• Support laboratory, pilot, factory, and field deployments, including travel as needed.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, edge modules, configuration, testing, security scanning, approvals, and environment promotion.

Skills

Azure cloud engineering

IoT engineering

DevOps

Infrastructure

Systems engineering

CI/CD

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field

Tools

Azure IoT Hub

Bicep

Terraform

ARM templates

Key Vault

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Ascend Technologies is seeking an Azure IoT Engineer to design, build, and support secure Azure IoT solutions for manufacturing clients. You will own infrastructure from device to cloud, focusing on IoT Edge, identity, security, and scalable deployments.

The role requires hands-on expertise in Azure IoT services, DevOps practices, and secure provisioning. Occasional travel to client locations may be required as projects evolve.