Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OP is a technology consulting and solutions company that offers innovative platforms and staffing solutions. They are seeking an Apache NiFi Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain high-performance data pipelines for real-time analytics and industrial IoT solutions, ensuring system reliability and optimizing data flows.
Responsibilities
- Join our team as an Apache NiFi Engineer and play a vital role in designing, deploying, and maintaining high-performance data pipelines that power real-time analytics and industrial IoT solutions
- You'll be responsible for managing, securing, and troubleshooting NiFi clusters, optimizing data flows, and ensuring system reliability across complex environments involving IoT devices, SCADA systems, and big data platforms
- With your expertise in data integration, industrial protocols, scripting, and system monitoring, you'll help deliver scalable, secure, and efficient data solutions that drive innovation and operational excellence
- Participate in OP monthly team meetings and participate in team-building efforts
- Contribute to OP technical discussions, peer reviews, etc
- Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base
- Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested
Skills
- Strong understanding of Apache NiFi
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying data flows using NiFi
- Knowledge of NiFi processors, controller services, templates, and reporting tasks
- Ability to configure and optimize NiFi for performance and reliability
- Experience with data ingestion, transformation, routing, and system integration
- Familiarity with common data formats (JSON, XML, CSV, Avro, Parquet)
- Understanding of batch and real-time data processing concepts
- Experience ingesting and processing IoT data from industrial sensors, PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers), SCADA systems, and other ICS devices
- Familiarity with industrial communication protocols such as MQTT, OPC-UA, Modbus, DNP3, and Ethernet/IP
- Ability to design NiFi flows for real-time telemetry data collection, anomaly detection, filtering, enrichment, and routing within ICS environments
- Handling high-volume, time-sensitive data streams with strict latency and reliability requirements
- Integration with industrial IoT platforms, historians, time-series databases, and analytics/monitoring tools
- Understanding of ICS-specific security concerns, including network segmentation, secure communication (TLS), and role-based access control
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Groovy, Python, or Shell for custom processors or extensions
- Knowledge of Java is a plus for developing custom NiFi processors
- Experience with Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, or other big data ecosystems is beneficial
- Understanding of messaging systems and streaming data pipelines
- Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments where NiFi typically runs
- Understanding of networking concepts, security (SSL/TLS), and authentication mechanisms
- Ability to monitor NiFi flows, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource usage
- Experience with NiFi logs, provenance data, and metrics
- Experience with Git or other version control systems
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for deploying NiFi flows
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Good communication skills to collaborate with data engineers, architects, and stakeholders
Benefits
- 401(k).
- Dental Insurance.
- Health insurance.
- Vision insurance.
Company Overview
OP is one of the fastest-growing technology consulting and solutions companies in the U.S. It was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.orangepeople.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
OP has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 8 in 2025, 5 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 8 in 2022, 6 in 2021, 11 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.