SysOps Software Architect (36136)
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
Full-time
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- Full-time
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- Experience
- 10+ years in software or systems engineering, including significant software or solution architecture experience.
- Posting language
- English
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Original job description
SysOps Software Architect
Lead the architecture and technical direction of System Operations (SysOps) software for a mission-critical satellite communications program. Translate operational, security, and system requirements into scalable solutions, maximizing reuse of existing platform capabilities while defining enhancements where necessary. Ottawa, Ontario; minimum four days per week on-site.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture and Technical Leadership
Lead the architecture and technical direction of System Operations (SysOps) software for a mission-critical satellite communications program. Translate operational, security, and system requirements into scalable solutions, maximizing reuse of existing platform capabilities while defining enhancements where necessary. Ottawa, Ontario; minimum four days per week on-site.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture and Technical Leadership
- Define and maintain end-to-end SysOps software architecture and translate operational concepts and system requirements into interfaces, services, workflows, and deployment requirements.
- Assess reusable existing platform capabilities and required program-specific enhancements.
- Establish architectural principles, design patterns, and standards across SysOps applications; lead reviews and document decisions, assumptions, dependencies, and risks.
- Align solution architecture with the wider satellite system architecture.
- Define capabilities to provision, configure, monitor, control, and support military Ka-band services.
- Design application-level and cross-application architecture for operational workflows, service management, fault management, performance monitoring, reporting, and administration.
- Define enhancements and integrations across SysOps and other operational systems.
- Ensure visibility of service status, network performance, alarms, events, logs, and customer-impacting issues; specify operational automation.
- Define APIs, data models, messaging interfaces, and integration patterns.
- Coordinate with BSS, user terminal, network engineering, cybersecurity, Network Operations, Satellite Operations, and Systems Engineering teams.
- Maintain traceability from requirements to architecture, interfaces, and deliveries; identify and mitigate integration risks.
- Support integration, system testing, and operational-readiness activities.
- Embed security by design, translating defense and government security requirements into identity, access control, auditing, logging, monitoring, application, and interface controls.
- Define resilience, availability, recovery, redundancy, and continuity requirements.
- Support security assessments, design reviews, accreditation, and remediation; safeguard sensitive information.
- Architect cloud, on-premises, edge, and hybrid deployments, including containers, Kubernetes, configuration management, CI/CD, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and high availability.
- Work with DevOps, IT, Network Operations, and support teams on deployability, supportability, and maintainability.
- Specify production monitoring, troubleshooting, and diagnostics; support capacity and performance planning, release planning, and readiness reviews.
- Support CONOPS, requirements analysis, architecture documentation, technical baselines, and program planning.
- Participate in PI planning, milestones, CDRs, reviews, and working groups.
- Provide architecture input to scope, estimates, sequencing, staffing, and commitments; communicate decisions, risks, and status to leadership.
- Mentor technical leads and developers across design, integration, verification, and deployment; promote architectural consistency and reuse.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years in software or systems engineering, including significant software or solution architecture experience.
- Proven architecture experience with large, distributed, mission-critical operational systems.
- Deep knowledge of microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, messaging, data integration, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on architectural experience with cloud-native applications, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and observability.
- Experience defining highly available, resilient, secure, and supportable production architectures.
- Ability to translate operational requirements into implementable architectures and support reviews, integration, verification, deployment, and readiness.
- Strong documentation, stakeholder communication, presentation, and cross-team technical leadership skills.
- Satellite communications, telecommunications, defense, government, or comparable mission-critical experience.
- Knowledge of military Ka-band and satellite network operations.
- Experience with OSS/BSS, network management, orchestration, provisioning, assurance, and operational data platforms.
- Familiarity with REST/OpenAPI, NETCONF/YANG, message brokers, telemetry, and modern integration patterns.
- Experience with government/military security requirements and formal accreditation.
- Experience with distributed teams and external delivery partners.
- Familiarity with requirements traceability, CONOPS, CDR, and system-level verification.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end architecture and technical direction of mission-critical SysOps software for satellite communications, including operational workflows, integrations, security, resilience, and deployment. Coordinate across engineering and operations teams, support program governance and readiness activities, and mentor technical staff.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field, plus 10 or more years of software or systems engineering experience with significant architecture experience. Candidates need expertise in distributed, cloud-native, secure, highly available systems and strong technical leadership, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
Skills
- Software Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Microservices
- API Design
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Messaging
- Data Integration
- Cloud-Native Applications
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure Automation
- Observability
- Cybersecurity
- High Availability
- Systems Integration
- Technical Leadership
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Categories
- Software
- Technology
- Engineering
- Management & Leadership
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- SysOps
- Satellite Communications
- Military Ka-Band
- Software Architecture
- Solution Architecture
- Microservices
- APIs
- REST
- OpenAPI
- NETCONF/YANG
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Message Brokers
- Distributed Systems
- OSS/BSS
- Network Management
- Service Provisioning
- Orchestration
- Kubernetes
- Containers
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure Automation
- Observability
- Cybersecurity
- Identity and Access Control
- High Availability
- Disaster Recovery
- Requirements Traceability
- CONOPS
- Critical Design Review
- System Verification