Controls Support Specialist – MQTT

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Assist in the deployment of data center control systems, ensuring timely delivery with minimal defects through effective vendor management during construction and L1–L5 commissioning phases.

• Aid in the final validation of controls, monitoring, and data transport systems, ensuring that all functional, performance, cybersecurity, and documentation criteria are complete, accurate, and prepared for handover to Operations and clients at PFHO.

• Facilitate the implementation of MQTT-based data ingestion and messaging solutions to support scalable, low-latency telemetry exchange among field devices, control systems, analytics platforms, and enterprise monitoring tools.

• Assist with MQTT topic structures, naming conventions, Quality of Service (QoS) levels, retained message strategies, and payload standards to ensure data consistency, reliability, and operational usability.

• Coordinate the integration of MQTT brokers with BMS, EPMS, PLCs, SCADA systems, and third-party platforms, ensuring compatibility, redundancy, and secure data exchange across various vendors and protocols.

• Collaborate with Operations Engineering to support point-to-point verification, MQTT message validation, software logic testing, and graphics validation to guarantee operability, data integrity, and quality prior to on-site deployment.

• Assist in QA/QC oversight of controls hardware installation, network infrastructure, MQTT-enabled gateways, vendor proposals, and programming deliverables throughout the construction and commissioning phases.

• Support commissioning activities to validate controls logic, alarm thresholds, monitoring configurations, MQTT data flows, broker failover, and end-to-end operability of integrated data center infrastructure systems.

• Assist Operations, IT, and Cybersecurity teams in diagnosing and resolving Loss of Visibility (LOV), Loss of Resilience (LOR), Large Scale Events (LSE), Critical Scale Events (CSE), and other operational incidents related to controls or data paths within defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

• Aid in monitoring, alerting, and performance metrics for MQTT infrastructure, ensuring availability, throughput, message latency, and resilience meet operational and business needs.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the efficiency, resilience, and observability of data center controls, MQTT-based telemetry pipelines, and related operational processes.

• Collaborate with Operations Engineering to ensure consistent application of standards, documentation quality, and best practices for controls systems, data models, and messaging architectures across projects, vendors, and regions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field; equivalent industry or military experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in controls engineering, encompassing programming development, system start-up, and/or commissioning of critical infrastructure systems.

• Practical experience implementing or integrating MQTT-based telemetry or messaging architectures in industrial, building automation, or mission-critical environments.

• Proficient with industry-standard programming environments, including PLCs, SCADA systems, and scripted programming languages.

• Capable of reading, interpreting, and validating engineering documentation, such as electrical one-lines, control diagrams, control network schematics, control panel bills of material (BOMs), and panel schematics.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Paid time off

• Paid holidays

• 401k