Building the space between proven and possible, MDA Space (TSX:MDA) is a trusted mission partner to the global space industry. A robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 55-year+ story of world firsts and more than 450 missions, MDA Space is a global leader in communications satellites, Earth and space observation, and space exploration and infrastructure. The MDA Space team of more than 3,400 space experts in Canada, the US and the UK has the knowledge and know-how to turn an audacious customer vision into an achievable mission – bringing to bear a one-of-a-kind mix of experience, engineering excellence and wide-eyed wonder that’s been in our DNA since day one. For those who dream big and push boundaries on the ground and in the stars to change the world for the better, we’ll take you there.
The Position:
We’re on the hunt for a Senior DevOps Software Engineer/MTS on our Robotics & Space Operations team at our Brampton office.
As our Senior DevOps Software Engineer/MTS, you will be instrumental in accelerating our software teams to deliver high quality software solutions faster than ever before. Leveraging and expanding on existing capabilities of our engineering IT organization, you will design, build, test, standardize, deploy, and manage CI/CD tools, pipelines, and frameworks that will be used by for development, qualification, and production systems. You will work closely with our software teams to provide guidance and patterns for development, as well as provide solutions to product and program teams for their needs, while helping them achieve continuous integration, code standards compliance, requirements/test traceability and more.
Job Responsibilities:
• Create/configure DevOps infrastructure to support projects/programs:
• Design/architect repeatable Infrastructure-as-Code patterns that meet program needs (Infosec compliance, Compute, Access, etc.)
• Research and selection of tools
• Perform cost/benefit analysis of solutions
• Create/assist programs in creating standardized dev, qual, and prod environments:
• Deploying and maintaining VM Environments
• Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes environments
• Build tools (e.g. CMake, Bazel, Pants, etc.)
• Automated testing tools and frameworks for multiple languages and levels of testing (e.g. dotnet-coverage, Selenium, Cucumber, Google Test, etc.)
• Automated linting/formatting tools (e.g. Clang-tidy, Clang-format, etc.)
• Requirements definition/tracking tools (e.g. PTC ILM, DOORS, Jira, etc.)
• Test reporting to PTC ILM
• Code metrics and reporting tools (e.g. SonarQube, Understand)
• Continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)
• Artifact Repositories (e.g. Nexus, Artifactory, etc.)
• Monitoring Tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Containerization of Linux/Windows applications (Docker)
• Support software development teams to improve/standardize their build and test environments
• Collaborate with other senior engineers and management on establishment, evolution, and enforcement of standards for coding, tools/environments, processes, etc.
• Other duties as will be assigned from time to time by management
Required Skills/Experience:
• Proven ability/experience implementing/maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code systems
o Reproducibility
o Cybersecurity Considerations
• Proven ability/experience implementing/maintaining build systems
o Robustness/dependability
o Speed
o Reproducibility
o Cross-compiling to embedded/RTOS platforms
• Proven ability/experience implementing/maintaining software development automation
o Continuous integration
o Requirements traceability
o Software metrics (code coverage, etc.)
o Continuous delivery/deployment
• Strong scripting skills in relevant languages such as Python
• Bachelor degree in Software, Computer, or Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Strong written/verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Highly motivated, enthusiastic, and a positive thinker
• Interested in finding scalable, long-term solutions which can be used across multiple programs
Beneficial Skills/Experience:
• Common Infrastructure Tooling (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, etc.)
• Virtualization Toolsets (VMWare, Proxmox, etc.)
• Containerization Tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• C/C++, C#, Javascript, Angular
• Test driven development (TDD, ATDD, BDD)
• Embedded/RTOS development – VxWorks, RTX64, etc.
• Web development
• Robotic arm control
• Communications interfaces (TCP/IP, PCI, 1553, I2C, RS232, RS422, EtherCat, CANOpen, etc.)
• Familiar with Agile or SAFe practices
Special Considerations:
Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the Reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP), and be able to obtain higher clearances.
Benefits Statement:
MDA Space offers competitive compensation and benefits to its employees at all of its locations. As a member of the MDA Space team, you and your eligible dependents can enroll in a benefits plan that provides a comprehensive level of protection through competitive health care, including: health care plans supplemental and flexible drug plans, dental and vision benefits, disability income protection, life insurance, group retirement savings plans and an employee assistance program and to their family.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
MDA Space is an equal opportunity employer with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion. We are committed to treating all employees and candidates with respect and dignity. If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruitment process, please let us know.
The compensation range for this position is $110,000- $140,000 annually. The specific compensation offered will be based on the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate.
