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The Senior SCADA Engineer is responsible for operating, supporting, and enhancing an industrial SCADA platform that supports critical energy operations. This role works across the full industrial data stack, including PLC generated field data, messaging infrastructure, databases, and Ignition applications, to ensure system reliability, performance, and continuous improvement. The Senior SCADA Engineer plays a key role in maintaining platform stability, troubleshooting complex issues, supporting customers, and helping scale the platform as the business continues to grow.Job Responsibilities
- Monitor, maintain, and support the health, reliability, and performance of the SCADA platform and supporting infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot system issues, performance bottlenecks, data integrity concerns, and operational incidents.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement solutions to prevent recurring issues.
- Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response processes.
- Create and improve standard operating procedures, operational documentation, and troubleshooting guides.
- Serve as a technical escalation point for customer-reported issues and operational support needs.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform functionality, reliability, and scalability.
- Develop and maintain scripts, automation, and tooling using Python and SQL.
- Support database optimization, data pipelines, and backend integrations.
- Design and maintain standardized PLC-to-SCADA data structures, naming conventions, and templates.
- Support integration and troubleshooting of PLCs, IIoT devices, MQTT, Sparkplug B, OPC UA, and Modbus communications.
- Contribute to operational standards, best practices, and the growth of the SCADA operations function.
Job Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on SCADA integration, development, or support experience.
- Strong experience with Ignition SCADA in a production environment.
- Ability to obtain Ignition Gold Certification within 6 months of hire.
- Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
- Proficiency writing and troubleshooting SQL queries.
- Experience with Python or other modern programming languages.
- Working knowledge of MQTT, Sparkplug B, OPC UA, Modbus, and industrial networking concepts.
- Familiarity with Linux-based server environments.
- Experience troubleshooting complex systems across hardware, networks, databases, and applications.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to document technical processes and system architecture.
- Authorized to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary + bonus
- 401(k)/ Retirement savings
- Comprehensive Benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage)
- Career growth
- Paid vacation/holidays
Skills Required
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on SCADA integration, development, or support experience
- Strong experience with Ignition SCADA in a production environment
- Ability to obtain Ignition Gold Certification within 6 months of hire
- Experience with relational databases
- PostgreSQL
- Proficiency writing and troubleshooting SQL queries
- Experience with Python or other modern programming languages
- Working knowledge of MQTT, Sparkplug B, OPC UA, Modbus, and industrial networking concepts
- Familiarity with Linux-based server environments
- Experience troubleshooting complex systems across hardware, networks, databases, and applications
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to document technical processes and system architecture
- Authorized to work in the United States
DistributionNOW Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about DistributionNOW and has not been reviewed or approved by DistributionNOW.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, and vision coverage is available, and benefits are frequently characterized as good to excellent. HSA and FSA options and multiple medical plan tiers are also referenced.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan is offered as part of the package. Retirement benefits are consistently present alongside core insurance coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, paid holidays, sick days, bereavement, military leave, and parental/family leave appear in the offering. These provisions support reasonable work‑life balance in several roles.
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What We Do
We operate primarily under the DistributionNOW and DNOW brands as a global distributor of the oil and gas and industrial markets. Through our growing DigitalNOW® platform, customers can leverage world-class technology across eCommerce, data management and supply chain optimization applications to solve a wide array of complex operational and product sourcing challenges to assist in maximizing their return on assets. Our energy product offering serves the energy industry – from upstream drilling and completion, exploration and production (“E&P”), midstream infrastructure development to downstream petroleum refining and petrochemicals – as well as in other industries, such as mining, chemical processing, liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) terminals, power generation utilities and renewables. The industrial distribution end markets include engineering and construction firms that perform capital and maintenance projects for their end-user clients. Our global product offering includes maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies, pipe, valves, fittings, flanges, gaskets, fasteners, electrical, instrumentation, artificial lift, pumping solutions, valve actuation and modular process, measurement and control equipment. We also offer procurement, warehouse and inventory management solutions as part of our supply chain and materials management offering. We have developed expertise in providing application systems, work processes, parts integration, optimization solutions and after-sales support. Our solutions include outsourcing portions or entire functions of our customers’ procurement, warehouse and inventory management, logistics, point of issue technology, project management, business process and performance metrics reporting. We streamline our customers’ purchasing process, from requisition to procurement to payment, by digitally managing workflow, improving approval routing and providing robust reporting functionality.
