Ignition SCADA Engineer and Developer
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*PLEASE NOTE*

*If you DO NOT LIVE in the Houston, TX Metro, (preferably in the North Houston area); PLEASE DO NOT apply for this position; thank you...*

**Due to exposure to sensitive/privileged company data, this position requires US Permanent Resident (Green Card), or US Citizen work status**

***This is a Fulltime/Direct Hire opportunity. This is a Hybrid work position, with flexibility/WFH, once you've gained knowledge of environment and team. The schedule is 3 days/week at the Corp HQ office, Tues/Wed & Thurs, located in The Woodlands, Texas. Therefore, you must live in the Houston, TX Metro area***

IS&T is helping the CIO of the largest Midstream/Water Management company in the US find a skilled Ignition SCADA Engineer and Developer. There are approx. 120 sites and hundreds of miles of pipeline, including OT infrastructure, IT infrastructure, meters, pumps, valves, and pressure management systems.

This is a hands on Ignition Engineering & Developer role, with development/engineering in Ignition SCADA stack, networking, programming, database management, PLC programming, Industrial protocols, and Visualizations (Power BI, etc.).

Ignition Software, here:

Notes from a Teams call with CIO:

Quote,

• “We are seeking an Engineer/Developer who's skilled in Ignition Development and best practices, with prior experience programming and performing integrations using Ignition.
• Prefer someone with a background/experience with computer networking, including VLAN, VPN, SSL/TLS, Firewalls, and Azure; and programming - like C, Linux, Python, and JavaScript.
• That said, we really need someone with hands on experience with Allen Bradley, as 75% of our PLC's in production are Allen Bradley...
• “We think the best candidate would be highly skilled with databases, specifically CanaryDB, and industrial protocols - MQTT, Modbus, OPC (Kepware), API's & IP forwarding; and PLC programming - Opto & IDEC PLC's.
• “We are transitioning from a 3rd party contract/consulting firm who is doing this work now; we are bringing this knowledge/skill set in house.
• “We prefer someone with hands on skills using Power Platform – Power BI”
• “Someone with hands on skills designing Tag namespace & Tag Databases”
• “Someone with good programming ability; not an expert. We're looking for physical interfacing of PLC's and writing if then statements in Python, or related scripting, programming language
• Nice to have expereince working with LoRaWAN networks, as we do ingest LoRaWAN data
• Process LoRaWAN data - tags, tag DB, and/or local API; or writing a program
• There is hybrid/WFH opportunity
• ~ 15% travel to Odessa, at most, more realistic travel is 10%
• Houston Offices are located in The Woodlands - North Houston

Skills

• Ignition SCADA development
• Ignition engineering
• Ignition Gateway network
• Create Tag database - Tag input - output
• Networking - VLAN, VPN, SSL/TLS, Firewalls, Azure
• C, Excel VBA, Unix/Linux Shell, JavaScript, Python
• MSSQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, CanaryDB
• Allen Bradley PLC
• PLC Programming: Opto22, IDEC & ingesting data
• PLC source code - writing Logic
• Industrial Protocols: Modbus, MQTT, OPC
• Kepware OPC Server
• Visualization: Power BI, Grafana
• SCADA, HMI, PLC
• Linux/Unix Scripting
• 3rd party Integrations - Device Integration
• Dynamic Named Queries
• DBA skills - SQL Tables
• Rockwell FactoryTalk nice to have
• LoRaWAN networks
• SQL Gateway Interfaces
• migrate data to Ignition
• Canary data historian
• engineer Canary integrations
• Optical Character Recognition, raw graph data, and other data analytics techniques.

Interview process: