Senior Ignition SCADA Engineer - Data Center Power & Energy Monitoring

Overview:

Senior, hands-on Ignition SCADA/EMS engineer to design and deploy the power &

energy monitoring platform for hyperscale and colocation data centers. A single 10–15

MW facility’s UPS, diesel gensets, BESS, switchgear, and transformer/grid interfaces all

need real-time monitoring - where an uncontrolled power event can damage

equipment or take a site down. You’ll own the monitoring scheme, build it once as a

standardized, templated Ignition application, and deploy it repeatably across multiple

sites.

This is a Remote role with a 25% onsite travel needed.

What You'll Do:

• Design the SCADA architecture for data center electrical infrastructure - power distribution, UPS, diesel gens, BESS, switchgear, and transformer/grid metering
• Build standardized, reusable Ignition applications (UDTs, templates, Perspective views) so a site design replicates to new facilities with minimal rework
• Develop real-time monitoring screens (Perspective/Vision) showing power flows, equipment status, alarms, and trends across the full electrical chain
• Configure data acquisition from PLCs, power meters, BMS, and protection relays over OPC-UA, Modbus, and MQTT/Sparkplug B
• Design alarming and event logic to flag power anomalies (surges, transfer events, battery/genset state) before they damage equipment
• Build the deployment pipeline so validated designs roll out to multiple sites consistently — gateway configuration, tag standardization, version control
• Produce the design and model documentation (one-lines, I/O lists, tag schemas, network architecture) required before commissioning
• Support commissioning, site acceptance testing, and ongoing optimization across deployed sites

Must Have:

• 5 years of Deep, hands-on production experience with Inductive Automation Ignition Perspective and/or Vision, UDTs, transaction groups, alarm pipelines, gateway architecture, and the tag system
• 5 years of Industrial controls / PLC background - programming and integrating PLCs in a real environment
• 5 years of Real experience with electrical power systems: UPS, diesel generators, BESS, switchgear, transformers, and grid/utility interfaces
• Proficiency with Industrial protocols: OPC-UA, Modbus TCP/RTU, MQTT Sparkplug B; comfort designing a Unified Namespace
• 5 years of experience with SCADA/EMS design from scratch - architecture, redundancy, historian, and network segmentation
• Ability to standardize and templatize so designs deploy repeatably across sites

Nice to Have:

• Direct data center experience (hyperscale or colo), or transferable critical-facility experience (utility, large industrial, microgrid/energy storage)
• Familiarity with data center electrical topology, redundancy (N+1, 2N), and how a power event propagates through the chain
• Multi-site / fleet deployment experience
• Ignition certification (Core / Gold)
• Python (Ignition’s Jython) scripting for custom logic and deployment automation

Pay: $100,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Are you a US Citizen ?
• This role requires 25% travel. Are you okay with this arrangement?

Experience:

• Direct data center: 4 years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Ignition Core/Gold Certificate (Required)

Work Location: Remote