Chief Azure IoT Cloud Engineer for Connected Vehicles

Oshkosh Corporation; South Carolina; On-site; USD 119,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Pierce Manufacturing, an Oshkosh company, seeks a Chief Engineer Principal Software to steer the architecture of our Azure-based IoT cloud platform for Fire, Refuse Collection, and Concrete Mixer markets.

You will mentor engineers, drive scalable cloud solutions, and collaborate with embedded teams while delivering secure, cost-efficient systems. This is a hands-on leadership role shaping the future of connected vehicle tech.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience developing backend software and APIs for cloud native applications.
• Strong programming skills in C#, .NET Core or similar programming language.
• Experience with Azure cloud technologies, including Azure functions, Event Grid Namespace, Event Hub Namespace, Azure Web PubSub, and Azure Communication Service, Azure Service Bus
• Experience designing cloud data stores ADX, SQL, time-series data, and related data services such as CosmosDB and Redis.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging patterns and real-time data processing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture for connected vehicle Azure cloud platform, driving design decisions that ensure scalability, reliability, security, performance, built in quality and cost efficiency across backend, data, web portal, and mobile app.
• Lead by example through hands‑on development of cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven systems, and data platforms while providing technical guidance to the team.
• Establish architecture standards, coding practices, design patterns to ensure high-quality, maintainable solutions. Mentor engineers and cultivate a culture of continuous learning.
• Collaborate with embedded engineers and product owner, remove technical roadblocks and help team successfully deliver sprint commitments.
• Drive continuous improvements in performance, security and cost optimization.

Skills

C# / .NET

Azure cloud

Event-driven

Backend APIs

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's in CS/CE

Tools

Docker

Azure Container Apps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CosmosDB

Redis

Job description

Pierce Manufacturing, an Oshkosh company, seeks a Chief Engineer Principal Software to steer the architecture of our Azure-based IoT cloud platform for Fire, Refuse Collection, and Concrete Mixer markets.

You will mentor engineers, drive scalable cloud solutions, and collaborate with embedded teams while delivering secure, cost-efficient systems. This is a hands-on leadership role shaping the future of connected vehicle tech.