Site Reliability Engineering Specialist

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full Time Hire - (FTE with Benefits)
• Company: Telesat (NASDAQ and TSX: TSAT)

Telesat is a leading global satellite operator, providing reliable and secure satellite-delivered communications solutions worldwide. Backed by a legacy of engineering excellence, 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. Telesat is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, and has offices and facilities around the world. For more information, visit www.telesat.com.

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Specialist to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud environments, automation, and monitoring, with a strong focus on incident response and system optimization. Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to maintaining system health are essential.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience: Minimum nine years of experience in IT operations with a focus on reliability, uptime, availability, and performance.
• Azure Expertise: At least five years of hands-on, provable experience with Microsoft Azure, including deployment, management, and monitoring.
• Automation Tools: Expertise in automation and configuration management tools with demonstrable experience using tools such as Terraform and Ansible to automate infrastructure and application deployment.
• Monitoring Tools: Strong understanding of monitoring and observability tools with proven experience in monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, or Splunk, and the ability to implement and manage them.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Telesat’s cloud engineers to deploy and maintain our Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• Maintain high availability, uptime, and resiliency of our infrastructure.
• Perform day-to-day operational tasks such as upgrades and patching of the Kubernetes platform.
• Automate operational tasks.
• Monitor the health of the platform and applications using Telesat’s observability platform.
• Improve observability, define and measure SLOs.
• Collaborate with development teams to resolve application issues.
• Go on-call and respond to automated alerts and execute playbooks.
• Identify gaps in processes and build or improve tools to support incident management.
• Facilitate incident response and conduct root cause analysis.

Application Instructions

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