Principal Programmer Analyst
- Location
- Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
Requisition ID: 97566 Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., providing reliable energy to nearly 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s most fuel-efficient, cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability, we’re redefining what’s possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful? Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy.
Position Specific Description Position Summary
NextEra Energy Resources is seeking a Principal IIoT Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Industrial IoT infrastructure supporting one of the industry's largest renewable energy telemetry platforms. The platform ingests telemetry from hundreds of wind, solar, battery storage, and distributed generation facilities, processing more than 100 billion Industrial IoT events per day while delivering highly available data services for operational technology (OT), enterprise analytics, AI, and business applications.
This role serves as a senior technical leader for the Industrial IoT platform, responsible for the design, operation, and continual improvement of the Ignition, HiveMQ, and AWS infrastructure that powers the Sequoia platform. The Principal Engineer will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, lead architecture decisions within their domain, and solve complex platform challenges while partnering with other Principal Engineers across the Sequoia ecosystem to deliver a secure, resilient, and scalable Industrial IoT platform.
Primary Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Serve as a senior technical leader for the Industrial IoT platform.
- Lead architecture decisions for the Ignition, HiveMQ, and AWS technology stack.
- Mentor engineers across multiple teams while fostering technical excellence.
- Establish engineering standards, operational best practices, and platform governance.
- Review solution designs to ensure scalability, resiliency, security, and maintainability.
- Lead technical root cause analysis for critical production incidents.
- Champion automation-first engineering practices.
- Develop platform standards, documentation, and operational procedures.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Operations, Data Engineering, and Application Development teams.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to the Industrial IoT platform.
Ignition Platform Engineering
Serve as the organization's subject matter expert for enterprise Ignition infrastructure, including:
- Enterprise Ignition architecture and platform design
- New server deployments and platform expansion
- Gateway installation, configuration, and lifecycle management
- Gateway upgrades and migration planning
- High Availability (HA) and redundancy configuration
- Gateway Network architecture
- Enterprise Administration Module (EAM)
- Enterprise gateway management
- Gateway backup and disaster recovery
- Performance tuning and optimization
- Certificate management
- Security Zones and Identity Providers
- Tag Provider architecture
- Historian integration
- Module administration
- Capacity planning
- Troubleshooting complex production gateway issues
- Standardization of enterprise Ignition deployments
- Operational support for large-scale production environments
HiveMQ Platform Engineering
Design, implement, and support highly available enterprise MQTT infrastructure, including:
- Multi-node HiveMQ cluster architecture
- High Availability (HA) and fault-tolerant deployments
- Cluster replication and synchronization
- Broker performance tuning
- Client load balancing
- MQTT persistence
- Store-and-forward strategies
- Authentication and authorization
- TLS configuration and certificate management
- Broker monitoring and health management
- Capacity planning
- Disaster recovery planning
- MQTT delivery troubleshooting
- Sparkplug B implementation and optimization
AWS Platform Engineering
Design, deploy, automate, and support cloud-native infrastructure utilizing:
- Amazon ECS
- Amazon EC2
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon SQS
- Amazon SNS
- Amazon EventBridge
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS IAM
- AWS Systems Manager
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Elastic Load Balancers (ALB/NLB)
- Auto Scaling Groups
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon VPC
- Security Groups
- Network ACLs
- Transit Gateway
- AWS PrivateLink
- AWS Backup
- AWS KMS
- Amazon S3
- Amazon ECR
- AWS Step Functions
Implement and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation , ensuring all infrastructure is automated, repeatable, version-controlled, and aligned with enterprise standards.
Platform Reliability & Operations
- Design highly available and fault-tolerant architectures.
- Eliminate single points of failure.
- Improve platform resiliency and operational maturity.
- Perform infrastructure capacity planning.
- Lead production incident response.
- Develop disaster recovery strategies.
- Create operational runbooks and engineering standards.
- Improve platform monitoring and observability.
- Optimize performance across distributed systems.
- Support 24x7 mission-critical production operations.
Industrial IoT Technologies
Deep expertise with:
- Ignition
- HiveMQ
- MQTT
- Sparkplug B
- OPC UA
Monitoring & Observability
Experience with enterprise monitoring platforms including:
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK / OpenSearch
- Enterprise logging
- Metrics collection
- Alerting strategies
- Capacity dashboards
- Operational health monitoring
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
Develop and maintain automation using:
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Python
- PowerShell
- Bash
- Git
- CI/CD pipelines
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Service Management
Experience supporting enterprise operational processes utilizing:
- ServiceNow
- Incident Management
- Change Management
- CMDB
- Asset Management
- Operational workflows
- ITIL processes
Security
Working knowledge of:
- Zero Trust principles
- AWS IAM best practices
- Certificate lifecycle management
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- TLS
- Cybersecurity hardening
- Secrets management
- Least privilege access
- Industrial cybersecurity
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise infrastructure.
- 7+ years administering enterprise Ignition environments.
- 7+ years supporting AWS production environments.
- 5+ years designing and operating enterprise MQTT platforms.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
- Experience supporting enterprise ServiceNow processes and integrations.
- Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
- Experience supporting 24x7 production environments.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and leading technical teams.
- Experience supporting large-scale Industrial IoT or telemetry platforms.
- Experience supporting platforms processing 100+ billion Industrial IoT events per day or equivalent hyperscale distributed systems.
Preferred Experience
- Renewable Energy
- Electric Utility Operations
- Power Generation
- Industrial Automation
- Manufacturing
- Enterprise Cloud Platform Engineering
Preferred Certifications
- AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate
- AWS Developer – Associate
- AWS Advanced Networking – Specialty
Technical Skills
Industrial Platforms
- Ignition
- HiveMQ
- MQTT
- Sparkplug B
- OPC UA
AWS Technologies
- ECS
- EC2
- Lambda
- SQS
- SNS
- EventBridge
- API Gateway
- CloudWatch
- IAM
- Systems Manager
- Secrets Manager
- Route 53
- S3
- ECR
- Step Functions
Infrastructure
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Linux
- Windows Server
- Docker
- Git
Programming & Scripting
- Python
- PowerShell
- Bash
- SQL
Leadership Competencies
The Principal IIoT Platform Engineer is expected to be a technical leader who elevates the capabilities of the entire engineering organization.
The successful candidate will:
- Mentor engineers across multiple teams and disciplines.
- Establish engineering standards and best practices.
- Lead architecture reviews and technical design sessions.
- Coach engineers on troubleshooting complex distributed systems.
- Drive operational excellence through automation and standardization.
- Influence technology strategy across multiple engineering teams.
- Build consensus among infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, OT, and operational teams.
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point for the organization's most complex technical issues.
- Foster knowledge sharing and technical growth throughout the engineering organization.
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role is measured by the reliability, scalability, security, and operational maturity of the Industrial IoT platform. The Principal Engineer will help ensure the platform continues to evolve through automation, engineering standards, resilient architecture, and technical mentorship while supporting one of the largest Industrial IoT environments in the utility industry. This individual will play a key role in enabling a platform that reliably processes more than 100 billion Industrial IoT events per day while supporting the continued growth of renewable energy operations and the broader Sequoia ecosystem.
Job Overview Employees in this position ensure that solutions developed on domain expert platforms conform to application strategy and ensure high availability on multimillion dollar, complex, mission critical and high volume transactional systems for the business unit. This position includes, but is not limited to, writing, coding, testing, analyzing, configuring, debugging and documenting software programs and applications.
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