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
[http://www.telesat.com/]
The Senior Systems Administrator will provide expert level guidance and support
of a highly secure, isolated Linux-based environment. The incumbent will require
senior level troubleshooting skills as well as problem solving skills. The
environment is a self-contained, standalone infrastructure including all basic
infrastructure services. They will look after all aspects of the infrastructure
from set up to operations which will include network connectivity, security,
access management, backups, high-availability and disaster recovery.
This position will begin at Telesat's headquarters in Ottawa and transition to
our Gatineau facility later in 2026.
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Main Responsibilities
- Build, test and operate the high-security infrastructure domain for satellite
operations.
- Provide integration with other environments through various security zones
and portals.
- Provide technical assistance to the applications and operations teams for
hardware, operating systems, and hypervisors.
- Develop and operate a highly secure backup process.
- Build out, operate and support various Basic Infrastructure Services (DNS,
DHCP, NTP, etc).
- Develop automation scripting for environments and provide documentation.
- Follow and document operational processes including Change Management.
- Manage log aggregation, monitoring and alerting as required.
- Proactively plan and determine patching strategies, high-availability,
upgrades and updates.
- Manage and monitor all local storage platforms.
- Provide operational support on a 24x7 basis, on-call.
Education & Experience Required
- University degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related
stream.
- Must have at least 7 years experience in the installation, configuration and
operation of Linux-based environments (e.g. RedHat, Ubuntu).
- Must have at least 5 years experience in building out on-premise, secure data
centre based hardware clusters (network, servers and storage).
- Proven experience in the deployment and operation of hypervisors (VMware,
KVM) is required.
Specialized Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
- Strong experience with building and running large scale, high-available and
fault-tolerant network infrastructure.
- Strong experience in the building and operation of dedicated, isolated
infrastructure services such as DNS and NTP.
- Strong knowledge of IAM and access management strategies and tooling.
- Strong understanding and hands on experience in the daily administration of
Linux.
- Experience leveraging scripts to build infrastructure (i.e. Bash, Python,
Terraform).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes deployments considered an asset.
- Familiarity with SRE concepts considered an asset.
Decision Making & Supervision
- Work under minimal supervision.
- Coordination with security team and network and infrastructure architects.
- Make decisions and recommendations requiring analysis and interpretation
within established procedures.
- This role has no direct reports but will work and interact with
multi-disciplinary engineering and IT teams.
Working Conditions
- Ability to travel between 3 sites in the Ottawa-Gatineau area is required on
a rotational basis (
