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Date: Oct 29, 2026
Location(s): Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 97566
Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., providing reliable energy to nearly 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s most fuel-efficient, cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability, we’re redefining what’s possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful? Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy.
Position Specific Description
Position Summary NextEra Energy Resources is seeking a Principal IIoT Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Industrial IoT infrastructure supporting one of the industry's largest renewable energy telemetry platforms. The platform ingests telemetry from hundreds of wind, solar, battery storage, and distributed generation facilities, processing more than 100 billion Industrial IoT events per day while delivering highly available data services for operational technology (OT), enterprise analytics, AI, and business applications. This role serves as a senior technical leader for the Industrial IoT platform, responsible for the design, operation, and continual improvement of the Ignition, HiveMQ, and AWS infrastructure that powers the Sequoia platform. The Principal Engineer will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, lead architecture decisions within their domain, and solve complex platform challenges while partnering with other Principal Engineers across the Sequoia ecosystem to deliver a secure, resilient, and scalable Industrial IoT platform. Primary Responsibilities Technical Leadership Ignition Platform Engineering Serve as the organization's subject matter expert for enterprise Ignition infrastructure, including: HiveMQ Platform Engineering Design, implement, and support highly available enterprise MQTT infrastructure, including: AWS Platform Engineering Design, deploy, automate, and support cloud-native infrastructure utilizing: Implement and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation, ensuring all infrastructure is automated, repeatable, version-controlled, and aligned with enterprise standards. Platform Reliability & Operations Industrial IoT Technologies Deep expertise with: Monitoring & Observability Experience with enterprise monitoring platforms including: Automation & Infrastructure as Code Develop and maintain automation using: Service Management Experience supporting enterprise operational processes utilizing: Security Working knowledge of: Required Experience Preferred Experience Preferred Certifications Technical Skills Industrial Platforms AWS Technologies Infrastructure Programming & Scripting Leadership Competencies The Principal IIoT Platform Engineer is expected to be a technical leader who elevates the capabilities of the entire engineering organization. The successful candidate will: What Success Looks Like Success in this role is measured by the reliability, scalability, security, and operational maturity of the Industrial IoT platform. The Principal Engineer will help ensure the platform continues to evolve through automation, engineering standards, resilient architecture, and technical mentorship while supporting one of the largest Industrial IoT environments in the utility industry. This individual will play a key role in enabling a platform that reliably processes more than 100 billion Industrial IoT events per day while supporting the continued growth of renewable energy operations and the broader Sequoia ecosystem.
Job Overview
Employees in this position ensure that solutions developed on domain expert platforms conform to application strategy and ensure high availability on multimillion dollar, complex, mission critical and high volume transactional systems for the business unit. This position includes, but is not limited to, writing, coding, testing, analyzing, configuring, debugging and documenting software programs and applications.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Researches, designs, documents, and modifies software specifications throughout the production life cycle
- Applies Six Sigma methodologies within software applications to help the business unit improve reliability, drive efficiencies and reduce costs
- Manages the development of new or existing programs and applications into the technical infrastructure and integration into existing business processes
- Provides technical or functional guidance/leadership and collaborates with work teams, onshore/offshore vendors and business unit personnel as needed
- Collaborates with network administrators, systems analysts, database administrators, external vendor support, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems
- Provides guidance on relevant system administration tasks including backup/recovery of systems and disaster recovery
- Designs, runs and monitors software performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging
- Conducts research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standards in support of procurement, development and maintenance efforts
- Develops and implements standard build processes and common utilities and tools that are repeatable
- Meets attendance and storm duty requirements and has the ability to work extended hours
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor’s or Equivalent Experience
- Experience: 6+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree
- Six Sigma Master Black Belt
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt
NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: Florida Power & Light Company
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our policy for more information.
Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami
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