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Telesat Devtools Specialist in Ottawa, Ontario
Devtools Specialist
Telesat (NASDAQ and TSX: TSAT) is a leading global satellite operator, providing reliable and secure satellite-delivered communications solutions worldwide to broadcast, telecommunications, corporate and government customers for over 50 years. Backed by a legacy of engineering excellence, reliability and industry-leading customer service, Telesat has grown to be one of the largest and most successful global satellite operators.
Telesat Lightspeed, our revolutionary Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network, scheduled to begin service in 2027, will revolutionize global broadband connectivity for enterprise users by delivering a combination of high capacity, security, resiliency and affordability with ultra-low latency and fiber-like speeds. Telesat is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, and has offices and facilities around the world.
The company’s state-of-the-art fleet consists of 15 GEO satellites, the Canadian payload on ViaSat-1 and one LEO 3 demonstration satellite. For more information, follow Telesat on X and LinkedIn or visit www.telesat.com
Telesat believes in the power of collaboration and the value of in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office Tuesday - Thursday, leaving Monday and Friday for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters brainstorming, problem-solving, and trusted relationships and allows our employees to come together three days a week to collaborate, innovate and thrive!
Reporting to the Manager of Cloud Services, you will be focused on delivery of cloud development services in an Agile DevOps environment. The focus will be on the delivery, availability, reliability and operational efficiency of the automated development environments and corresponding infrastructure.
This position will support all non-Enterprise tooling across Telesat and related infrastructure.
Manage SaaS applications, migrations, upgrades, patching and Telesat integration requirements for access and authorization.
Integration of SSO capabilities within the scope of the Corporate IAM model.
Main Responsibilities
Manage and oversee the tooling infrastructure across Telesat.
Provide detailed L3 support for the applications and tooling.
Perform customizations to tooling as required by the business.
Work with the Infrastructure, Cloud and Cyber Architects to properly migrate and build new environments (both on-prem, in-cloud and SaaS) for all tools, applications and service offerings relating to technical engineering groups.
Manage and oversee licensing and seat entitlements, and to provide reporting to ensure both compliance and meet budget limitations.
Work and regularly engage with tools vendors to understand upgrades, roadmaps and ongoing issues.
Perform regular updates and patches as required to the tools and related infrastructure.
Ensure proper user access is established and security maintained within the tools.
Establish rules and operations manuals for backups, recovery and DR.
Day-to-day operational support.
Education & Experience Required
A Diploma or Degree in a relevant area of study with a preference for Computer Science together with demonstrated operational network-related experience.
Minimum of 4 years in supporting Development teams in an Engineering environment.
Industry certifications in Azure, Agile and/or CyberSecurity are an asset.
Proven experience in scripting to perform automation tasks.
Experience in the administration of computer systems such as systems administrator in an operations role.
Experience in supporting DevOps and Engineering tools.
Strong understanding and hands on experience in operations and management of public cloud-computing environments like GCP, AWS and Azure.
Strong understanding and hands on experience in the administration of Linux.
Understanding of DevOps concepts and toolchains.
Familiarity with SRE concepts considered an asset.
Understanding of microservices and containerization.
Decision Making & Supervision
In this role, the incumbent will have significant influence on decisions towards application selection, licensing and infrastructure implementation.
The incumbent will rely on their experience to make decisions on the operations, customization and tuning of environments and services.
Working Conditions
Generally comfortable working conditions, office-based environment.
Moderate visual concentration in use of video display terminal.
Appropriate security clearances required.
Occasional off-hours support may be required for systems maintenance.
Participation in group pager rotation (‘on call’) for production systems when completed.
At Telesat, we take pride in being an equal opportunity employer that values equality in the workplace. We are committed to providing the best candidate experience possible including any required accommodations at every stage of our interview process. All qualified applicants that have been selected for an interview that require accommodations, are advised to inform the Telesat Talent team accordingly. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential.