IoT Engineer: Terraform & AWS IoT Stabilization Remote

GTN Technical Staffing; La Porte (TX); On-site; USD 134,000 - 268,000; Part time

Job summary

GTN Technical Staffing seeks a senior IoT Engineer to stabilize a production AWS IoT platform and migrate infrastructure to Terraform. This fixed-scope engagement emphasizes issue resolution, IaC migration, and a thorough handover to internal teams.

The role requires 5+ years of AWS cloud engineering with IoT expertise, plus strong Terraform skills and experience provisioning edge routers. Remote work in US time zones is supported for 1–2 months starting ASAP.

Qualifications

• 5+ years AWS cloud engineering with production support.
• Strong hands-on AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT SiteWise.
• Advanced Terraform skills (module design, resource import, state management).
• Experience provisioning industrial edge routers / cellular gateways with certificate-based onboarding.
• Proficiency in AWS Lambda, SNS, IAM, CloudWatch, and Grafana.
• Strong documentation and knowledge transfer skills.
• Experience stabilizing and handing off inherited platforms.

Responsibilities

• Triage and resolve open production issues, prioritizing notification reliability.
• Inventory, import, and migrate all AWS resources into clean Terraform modules with remote state.
• Design and document a standardized “cookie-cutter”provisioning process for new edge routers (out-of-box →fully integrated).
• Produce comprehensive documentation: architecture diagrams, runbooks, provisioning guides, and operational procedures.
• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions with internal team.

Skills

AWS IoT Core

Terraform

Edge routers provisioning

AWS IoT SiteWise

AWS Lambda

SNS

IAM

CloudWatch

Grafana

Documentation

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

Job description

GTN Technical Staffing seeks a senior IoT Engineer to stabilize a production AWS IoT platform and migrate infrastructure to Terraform. This fixed-scope engagement emphasizes issue resolution, IaC migration, and a thorough handover to internal teams.

The role requires 5+ years of AWS cloud engineering with IoT expertise, plus strong Terraform skills and experience provisioning edge routers. Remote work in US time zones is supported for 1–2 months starting ASAP.