DevSecOps Specialist in Ottawa, Ontario

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DevSecOps 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

Reporting to the Manager of Platform Engineering, you will be focused on delivery of DevSecOps 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. The goal is improved developer experience and improved software delivery velocity.

· This position will support all non-Enterprise tooling across Telesat and related Lightspeed 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.

The tools will include (but not limited to):

o Jira

o Confluence

o GitLab

o JFrog Artifactory/XRay/Connect

o Jama Connect

Candidates must live in the Ottawa area or be willing to relocate to Ottawa.

Candidates must be willing to be onsite in the office at least 4 days per week.

Main Responsibilities

  • Manage and oversee the tooling infrastructure across Telesat.

  • Provide support and backup to the Cloud Architect.

  • 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.

  • Help build/maintain/debug CI/CD pipelines

  • 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 2 years in supporting Development teams in an Engineering environment building/maintaining/debugging CI/CD pipelines

  • Industry certifications in Azure, Agile and/or CyberSecurity are an asset.

Specialized Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • 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

  • Experience developing/maintaining/debugging CI/CD pipelines, especially in GitLab.

  • 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.

  • This role has no direct reports, but will work and interact with multi-disciplinary engineering and IT teams.

Working Conditions

  • Generally comfortable working conditions, office-based environment.

  • Moderate visual concentration in use of video display terminal.

  • Appropriate security clearances required.

  • Off-hours, weekend and holiday support may be required for systems maintenance and outage-related emergencies

  • Participation in group pager rotation (‘on call’) for production systems will be required

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.







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