Senior IoT Platform Engineer (Edge & Connectivity)

About Us: 

Bauer Media Outdoor is a leader in the advertising world, operating across 12 markets. 

Our mission is to Create tech that makes a difference, empower teams, delight customers, and shape the media world of tomorrow. We are reshaping the media landscape through data-driven innovation and robust, scalable platforms. 

Technology sits at the heart of our organisation. We value transparency, accountability, and outcomes over theatre. 

Our ambition is to be the industry-leading technology team, known for customer-centric, reliable, fast, flexible, and innovative solutions. 

About the role: 

We’re hiring a Senior IoT Engineer to join our Networks team. 

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on the connectivity and device platform that powers our digital screen network across Europe. 

Our estate includes thousands of connected devices deployed in real-world environments, including digital displays, edge compute nodes, and telemetry systems. Ensuring these devices remain securely connected, observable, and remotely manageable is critical to how our platform operates. 

You will work across IoT connectivity, edge networking, device lifecycle management, and cloud integration, helping ensure that our physical infrastructure operates reliably at scale. 

Alongside day-to-day engineering and operations, you will play a key role in modernising how connected devices are deployed, monitored, and managed across the platform through automation and modern engineering practices. 

This role is not simply about maintaining infrastructure. 
You will be expected to continuously improve how our connected device ecosystem operates. 

What Success Looks Like 

You will make a meaningful impact by: 

• Maintaining high device connectivity and uptime across the IoT estate, ensuring thousands of deployed screens remain reliably connected across cellular, edge, and cloud infrastructure
• Reducing device connectivity incidents and time to resolution, improving how quickly faults are detected, diagnosed, and resolved across the platform
• Increasing visibility into device health and connectivity, giving engineering teams clear telemetry and monitoring across thousands of endpoints in production
• Reducing manual operational effort through automation, enabling devices to be provisioned, configured, and managed consistently at scale
• Improving the resilience and stability of the connected device platform, ensuring connectivity remains reliable even in complex real world deployment environments
• Strengthening the security posture of the device ecosystem, ensuring endpoints connect safely into enterprise and cloud environments

What you'll be doing: 

• Design and operate the connectivity layer that links thousands of edge devices and digital screens to cloud platforms across multiple European markets
• Manage secure device connectivity including 4G and 5G modems, SIM lifecycle management, and APN configuration
• Build and maintain the device telemetry and messaging layer using protocols such as MQTT, or AMQP
• Automate device provisioning and lifecycle management using Python, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Improve device observability and monitoring across the fleet, enabling faster detection and resolution of connectivity issues
• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure the reliability and security of the connected device ecosystem
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of our edge and connected infrastructure platform

What we're looking for: 

IoT & Edge Systems 

• Experience working with large scale IoT or connected device environments. 

• Strong understanding of IoT communication protocols such as MQTT, CoAP, or AMQP. 

• Experience working with IoT gateways, edge devices, or distributed device fleets. 

• Understanding of device lifecycle management, including provisioning, firmware updates, remote management, and telemetry. 

• Experience working with Linux-based edge systems or embedded environments. 

Connectivity & Networking 

• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals, including DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, cyber security and VPN technologies. 

• Strong understanding of wireless technologies from BLE (WPAN) to LoRA (LPWAN) to NB-IOT (Cellular)., the differences, constraints and use cases. 

• Experience in troubleshooting end-to-end connectivity across distributed device fleets or remote infrastructure. 

• Hands on experience working with cellular connectivity technologies such as 4G and 5G, including SIM lifecycle management and APN configuration. 

Cloud, Data & Observability 

• Experience integrating device data and telemetry into cloud platforms or APIs. 

• Hands-on experience working with Azure networking or cloud connectivity. 

• Experience working with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Zabbix, Icinga, or similar telemetry systems. 

Security & Engineering Approach 

• Strong understanding of secure device connectivity and IoT security principles. 

• Familiarity with security frameworks such as ISO 27001 or the OWASP IoT Top 10. 

• Experience automating infrastructure or operational workflows using scripting or infrastructure-as-code tooling. 

• Comfortable working in Agile (Jira) engineering teams, collaborating across infrastructure, platform, and security functions. 

What’s In It For You? 

Out-of-home Advertising is a well-established medium undergoing a digital revolution, and one we believe we are unique positioned to capture.

You will be at the forefront of this journey, working with your peers to lead the way. 

As part of this you will get to grow and learn by working with the latest tech, joining with innovate partners, and working with great colleagues on a day-to-day basis.

You will have influence and you will have the opportunity to create something at the forefront of tech in media that you will feel proud of. 

The package will also include: 

• Hybrid working model with regular office presence to build team culture and relationships. 

• 33 paid holidays inc bank holidays 

• Company Pension Scheme paid up to 8% 

• Healthcare Cash Plan 

• Life Insurance and group income protection scheme 

• Cycle to work scheme 

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Cover 

We believe in fairness and as an equal opportunities employer we work hard to foster an inclusive environment, a place you can truly be yourself and be treated fairly. We’re interested in what you can do, not just what you’ve done. Even if you don’t meet every requirement listed, we’d still love to hear from you. 

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