Senior OT Integration Engineer — Ignition Platform Lead

Oldcastle-Infrastructure; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Medical benefits

Retirement program

Wellness programs

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Oldcastle Infrastructure seeks a Senior OT Integration Engineer to lead Ignition platform strategy and enterprise OT data solutions across our distributed manufacturing footprint. You will architect, govern, and implement visualization, historian, alarming, MES, and integration capabilities with IT/OT collaboration.

Based in Atlanta, this hybrid role partners with OT Infrastructure, Automation Engineering, Operations, Cybersecurity, and Systems Integrators to ensure scalable, secure, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience supporting industrial automation, SCADA, MES, OT systems, or manufacturing technology environments.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, developing, or administering Inductive Automation Ignition solutions.
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise-scale OT integration or industrial software projects.
• Strong understanding of industrial control systems, SCADA platforms, HMI technologies, and manufacturing operations.
• Experience with Ignition development, administration, architecture, and lifecycle management.
• Experience integrating industrial systems using OPC-UA, MQTT, SQL databases, APIs, and related technologies.
• Knowledge of OT cybersecurity principles and industrial security frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support enterprise Ignition solutions for visualization, data collection, historian, alarming, reporting, and system integration.
• Establish and maintain enterprise standards, templates, naming conventions, and reference architectures for Ignition deployments.
• Drive consistency across manufacturing sites by defining approved architectures, development practices, and deployment standards.
• Support the organization's Ignition Center of Excellence by promoting reuse, governance, and platform standardization.
• Design and support integrations between PLCs, SCADA systems, historians, MES platforms, enterprise applications, and cloud-based data sources.
• Develop and maintain data exchange solutions utilizing OPC-UA, MQTT, SQL, APIs, and other industrial integration technologies.
• Support plant initiatives requiring operational data visibility, reporting, analytics, and business system integration.
• Evaluate and recommend integration approaches that maximize scalability, maintainability, and reliability.
• Develop and maintain Ignition applications, dashboards, reports, and visualization solutions supporting plant operations and enterprise reporting.
• Design data collection, historian, and reporting architectures that support operational excellence and digital manufacturing initiatives.
• Support enterprise manufacturing data strategies and integration with analytics, reporting, and business intelligence platforms.
• Ensure Ignition and OT integration solutions align with corporate cybersecurity standards and industry frameworks including ISA-95, IEC 62443, and NIST.
• Partner with infrastructure and cybersecurity teams to support secure OT network architectures, remote access solutions, and connectivity standards.
• Participate in architecture reviews, risk assessments, and technology evaluations for manufacturing systems.
• Provide senior-level technical support for Ignition platforms and OT integration services impacting plant operations.
• Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for complex application, integration, or communication issues.
• Support software upgrades, platform lifecycle management, disaster recovery planning, and technology refresh initiatives.
• Develop and maintain architecture standards, engineering documentation, implementation guides, and operational procedures.
• Review and approve system integrator and vendor designs to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and best practices.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for Ignition and OT integration technologies across the organization.
• Mentor engineers and integrator partners while supporting knowledge transfer and platform adoption across manufacturing sites.

Skills

Ignition platform

OT integration

Industrial automation

SCADA systems

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Engineering/CS

Tools

Ignition

OPC-UA

MQTT

SQL

APIs

Job description

Oldcastle Infrastructure seeks a Senior OT Integration Engineer to lead Ignition platform strategy and enterprise OT data solutions across our distributed manufacturing footprint. You will architect, govern, and implement visualization, historian, alarming, MES, and integration capabilities with IT/OT collaboration.

Based in Atlanta, this hybrid role partners with OT Infrastructure, Automation Engineering, Operations, Cybersecurity, and Systems Integrators to ensure scalable, secure, and