Seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Specialist to ensure system reliability, performance, and scalability. Responsibilities include maintaining Kubernetes infrastructure, automating operations, monitoring systems, conducting incident response, and improving observability.
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 14 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
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.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Telesat's cloud engineers to deploy and maintain our Kubernetes-based infrastructure
- Help 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, as well as build or improve tools to support incident management
- Facilitate incident response and conduct root cause analysis
Education and Experience Required:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Minimum nine years of experience in IT operations with a focus on reliability, uptime, availability and performance
- At least five years of hands-on provable experience with Microsoft Azure including deployment, management, and monitoring
- Expertise in automation and configuration management tools with demonstrable experience using tools such as Terraform and Ansible to automate infrastructure and application deployment
- 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 maintain observability solutions
- CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) would be considered an Asset for this role.
The successful candidate must be able to work in Canada and obtain clearance under the Canadian Controlled Goods program (CGP)
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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.
Top Skills
Ansible
Grafana
Kubernetes
Azure
Nagios
Prometheus
Splunk
Terraform
Telesat Ottawa, Ontario, CAN Office
160 Elgin St, Suite 2100, , , Ottawa, Ontario , Canada, K2P 2P7
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