Ignition SCADA Engineer - Data Center
Ignition SCADA Engineer - Data Center Environments (EPMS/DCIM)
Company: Confidential systems integrator | Employment: Full‑time | Travel: minimal-moderate for FAT/SAT & cutovers
Own the design, build, and lifecycle support of Ignition‑based SCADA/EPMS solutions across hyperscale and colocation data centers. You'll architect redundant gateways, model tags/UDTs, script business logic, and integrate power and mechanical systems to deliver resilient monitoring, alarming, and analytics that meet Tier III/IV uptime expectations.
What you'll do
- Design & submittals: one‑line diagrams, network/rack layouts, VLAN/IP schemes, I/O lists, tag dictionaries, alarming matrices, cause‑and‑effect, and test scripts.
- Ignition development: Perspective/Vision UIs, UDTs/templates, navigation models, schedule/alarm pipelines, Tag Historian, reporting, and KPI dashboards.
- Integration & data: OPC UA/DA, MQTT Sparkplug B, Modbus TCP, SNMP, REST/HTTP; normalize telemetry from UPS, generators, switchgear, PDUs/RPPs, CRAC/CRAH, chillers, meters.
- Reliability engineering: gateway redundancy, store‑and‑forward, EAM deployments, backup/restore, HA/DR runbooks, and failover drills.
- Scripting & SQL: Jython/Python for business rules and data transforms; SQL (PostgreSQL/SQL Server) for queries, historian tuning, and retention strategies.
- Commissioning: lead FAT/SAT, point‑to‑point, sequence validation, witness testing, and turnover packages (as‑builts, O&M, training).
What you'll bring
- 5-10+ years in SCADA/HMI; 3+ years hands‑on Ignition (Perspective/Vision, Gateway, Historian, Alarm Notification).
- Data center or mission‑critical experience (EPMS/BMS/DCIM) with Tier III/IV concepts (N+1/2N, concurrent maintainability).
- Strong grasp of power and MEP systems instrumentation and controls.
- Solid SQL + Jython, UDT design, tag naming standards, and alarming strategy.
- Controls/OT networking (Layer 2/3, firewalls/NAT, DMZs, certificates, TLS).
- Documentation rigor and clear client communication.
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