Introduction

Brunel has partnered with a leading resources company on a contract opportunity for a Cloud Engineer. This role is ideal for someone with IoT exposure, including MQTT telemetry, device security, and production-grade observability for safety-critical systems.

What are you going to do

This role will design and deliver cloud and edge-to-cloud capabilities that enable safe, reliable, and observable operation of a Collision Avoidance System across heavy mobile equipment. You'll build and operate telemetry ingestion, device messaging, APIs, data stores, and dashboards, partnering closely with embedded, systems/safety, and product teams. A key focus is modernising and hardening the road-side-to-cloud path over LTE/4G (MQTT) while maintaining backwards compatibility as hardware evolves.

Key Outcomes:

  • Reliable, low-latency ingestion from road-side components over LTE/4G with MQTT QoS tuned for safety and bandwidth efficiency.
  • Production-grade APIs and data models used by analytics, simulation, incident review, and safety case stakeholders.
  • End-to-end observability: metrics, traces, structured logs, fleet health dashboards, and alerting aligned to clear SLOs.
  • Secure device identity, provisioning, and lifecycle management with audit trails and least-privilege access (IEC 62443 aligned).
  • Data quality and retention that supports safety analysis, regression studies, and regulatory evidence.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build cloud-native services for telemetry ingestion, device messaging, and command pathways using MQTT plus REST/gRPC where appropriate.
  • Engineer streaming and batch pipelines for logs, metrics, and events to support diagnostics, fleet analytics, and product insights.
  • Define and maintain message schemas and contracts across onboard, road-side, and cloud boundaries, ensuring backward compatibility.
  • Design scalable storage layers (time-series, object, relational) with partitioning, indexing, and lifecycle policies for cost-efficient retention.
  • Establish and operate observability standards including centralised logging, distributed tracing, SLOs/SLIs, and on-call readiness.
  • Implement secure device onboarding, certificate/key rotation, secrets management, and RBAC for internal services and dashboards.
  • Work with embedded and systems/safety engineers to translate safety requirements into cloud-side validations and fail-safe behaviours.
  • Produce strong technical documentation: interface specs, sequence diagrams, runbooks, data dictionaries, and operational playbooks.
  • Improve CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing (contract, integration, performance, chaos) to support safe releases.

Essential skills and knowledge 

  • 3+ years building cloud platforms for IoT/edge systems, with strong ownership of reliability and operations.
  • Strong MQTT capability (topic design, QoS, retained messages, sessions) and secure connectivity over LTE/4G.
  • Backend engineering in one or more languages (C#, Go, Python, Java) building REST/gRPC APIs and event-driven services.
  • Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) covering networking, IAM, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and IaC (Terraform/CDK).
  • Observability experience (Prometheus/OpenTelemetry or similar), dashboards, and alerting aligned to latency/availability/data completeness.
  • Data engineering foundations: schema design, serialisation (JSON/Avro/Protobuf), time-series and data lake patterns, retention/governance.

Highly regarded:

  • V2X/DSRC telemetry characteristics and implications for cloud aggregation/analytics.
  • Experience supporting safety cases, incident reconstruction, and regulatory evidence with robust data pipelines.
  • Familiarity with RS-232 integrated systems, GNSS data handling, and control-system observability.
  • React/TypeScript UI work for dashboards and operator tooling.
  • Digital twins, replay frameworks, rules engines/stream processing, and spatiotemporal visualisation (GNSS traces/events).

What we offer

About Brunel:

Brunel is a recruitment and flexible workforce solution provider which connects talented people with opportunities throughout Australasia and around the world. We specialise in highly skilled roles across a variety of technical, professional, trades and craft disciplines, pairing candidates with industry-leading projects and organisations on a contract, permanent or secondment basis.

Operating in Australasia since 1997, Brunel has major bases of operation in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Port Moresby, which are further backed by the strength and reach of a truly global network spanning over 45 countries, 120 offices and 45 years of successful operation.

Brunel is proud to be equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates.

How to apply:

If you meet the above requirements and would like to be considered for this role, please submit your interest using the 'Apply' button. Applying is quick and easy - just make sure you have the following documents ready to go:

  • Resume
  • Cover Letter (optional)

Closing: March 14, 2026

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Vacancy reference: TR-278603

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