3 days ago
Ottawa, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the end-to-end SysOps software architecture for the ESCP-P program.
- Translate operational concepts and system requirements into software architecture, interfaces, services, workflows, and deployment requirements.
- Define capabilities for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, control, service management, fault management, reporting, and system administration.
- Govern APIs, data models, messaging interfaces, integration patterns, dependencies, and traceability across SysOps and adjacent systems.
- Incorporate security, identity, access control, audit, logging, monitoring, resilience, availability, recoverability, redundancy, and continuity requirements.
- Define deployment, containerization, Kubernetes, configuration management, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability architecture requirements.
- Support architecture reviews, integration, testing, accreditation, operational readiness, capacity planning, performance engineering, and production-readiness activities.
- Provide architecture input to scope, estimates, sequencing, staffing, delivery commitments, and program governance.
- Present technical decisions, risks, and recommendations to leadership and mentor technical leads and developers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 10 years of software or systems engineering experience, including significant software or solution architecture experience.
- Experience architecting large-scale, distributed, mission-critical operational systems.
- Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, messaging, data integration, and distributed-system design.
- Experience with cloud-native applications, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and observability.
- Experience defining highly available, resilient, secure, and supportable production architectures.
- Ability to translate system and operational requirements into implementable software architectures.
- Experience supporting architecture reviews, system integration, verification, deployment, and operational readiness.
- Strong technical documentation, stakeholder communication, presentation, technical decision-making, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Preferred experience with satellite communications, telecommunications, defense systems, government programs, or other mission-critical environments.
- Preferred knowledge of Military Ka-band or satellite network operations and experience with OSS/BSS platforms, network management systems, service orchestration, provisioning, assurance, and operational data platforms.
- Preferred familiarity with REST/OpenAPI, NETCONF/YANG, message brokers, telemetry, requirements traceability, CONOPS development, CDR processes, and system-level verification.
- Preferred experience with military or government security requirements, formal accreditation processes, geographically distributed teams, and external delivery partners.
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About Telesat
Telesat builds and operates geostationary satellites and is developing the Telesat Lightspeed low‑Earth‑orbit network to deliver broadband and connectivity for telecom, enterprise, maritime, aeronautical, and government users. It sells satellite capacity and managed communications services globally and trades on Nasdaq and TSX (TSAT). Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Ottawa, it reports a fleet of 12 GEO satellites plus a LEO demo satellite, with Lightspeed targeted to begin service in 2027.