IoT Network & Edge Engineer

When to Use

Design device connectivity—MQTT, CoAP, HTTP/REST device APIs; QoS, retain, and session semantics
Plan LPWAN and mesh—LoRaWAN, Zigbee, Z-Wave, BLE transport roles and gateway backhaul
Architect edge gateways and protocol bridges—northbound cloud, southbound field protocols
Define MQTT topics, ACLs, and broker scale—namespace design, shared subscriptions, clustering
Implement device identity, provisioning, and PKI—bootstrap, cert rotation, revocation
Design OTA update architecture—staged rollouts, bandwidth-aware delivery, rollback at edge
Engineer offline tolerance—store-and-forward, edge buffering, sync after reconnect
Trade off bandwidth, latency, and battery—payload sizing, sleep schedules, edge aggregation
Integrate cloud IoT platforms—AWS IoT Core, Azure IoT Hub, GCP IoT concepts; shadows and rules
Deploy edge analytics and rules—Greengrass, IoT Edge modules, K3s edge workloads
Segment IoT networks—dedicated VLANs/VRFs, zero-trust device access, broker isolation
Operate fleet observability—metrics, last-will, desired/reported state, fleet health dashboards