Ignition SCADA/MES Validation Engineer

Net2Source is seeking an experienced Ignition SCADA/MES Deployment & Validation Engineer to support the deployment and validation of SCADA/MES solutions in manufacturing environments. This role involves significant travel to manufacturing sites for deployment, testing, and support, ensuring a smooth transition to production-ready systems.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy Ignition Gateway, Perspective clients, projects, tags, scripts, and database connections in production environments
• Support environment promotions (Dev/Test/Prod)
• Assist with production cutover and rollback planning
• Validate end-to-end data flow from PLCs and plant systems through Ignition into: Historians, MES databases, Dashboards, Alarms, Reports
• Execute: Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT)
• Diagnose and resolve issues related to: OPC UA connectivity, MQTT communications, PLC integrations, Database connectivity, Client performance, Security configurations, Network communications
• Support go-live and hypercare activities
• Record: Test results, Defects, Remediation actions, Validation evidence, Stakeholder approvals
• Maintain testing and traceability documentation
• Validate production workflows
• Verify production tracking accuracy
• Confirm reporting outputs and operational readiness
• Coordinate with operations, engineering, IT, controls, and vendor teams
• Deliver Ignition Gateway and Perspective deployment in production environments
• End-to-end system validation and testing
• Site Acceptance Testing documentation
• Verification of: Tags, Alarms, Scripts, Database connections, Perspective screens
• Troubleshooting and remediation support
• Production cutover and go-live readiness activities
• Hypercare support
• Testing and validation documentation
• Manufacturing workflow validation
• Environment promotion support (Dev/Test/Prod)

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience with Ignition 8.1+
• Gateway deployment and configuration
• Project publishing and rollout
• Perspective application deployment and validation
• Python/Jython scripting within Ignition
• Automation logic validation
• Event handling and runtime troubleshooting
• Strong SQL expertise
• Database troubleshooting
• Stored procedure validation
• Schema and data integrity verification
• SCADA/MES database architecture understanding
• Deployment and validation of SCADA and MES platforms
• Data acquisition and visualization
• Historian integration
• Reporting and production workflow validation
• OPC UA
• MQTT
• PLC integrations
• Manufacturing system interfaces
• Test planning and execution
• Defect triage
• Validation documentation
• End-to-end system testing
• Working with operations teams
• Working with maintenance teams
• Working with controls engineers
• Working with IT departments
• Working with vendors
• Commissioning, cutover, go-live, and hypercare support
• Ignition Gateway scripting
• Advanced tag configuration
• Security models and role-based access validation
• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• FTP/SFTP integrations
• OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)
• Production tracking systems
• Manufacturing reporting validation
• Commissioning documentation
• Traceability matrices
• Validation evidence packages
• Multi-environment deployment management
• Production cutover and migration activities