Telesat
Lightspeed Network Engineering Co-op Student (Fall 2026)
Ottawa, Ontario · Intern · Internship
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 40 days ago
PythonGitAnsibleLinuxConfluenceNetwork EngineeringCollaboration
About the role
- The Telesat Lightspeed Network Engineering team is responsible for the end-to-end network design of Telesat's Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit network. This Co-Op opportunity will leverage software automation and latest AI-based capabilities to help improve and streamline the network engineering team's design, validation and documentation deliverables in
- - Build high-quality software components to enable automation of network configuration and validation tasks.
Responsibilities
- Build high-quality software components to enable automation of network configuration and validation tasks.
- Participate in Network Engineering's day to day design, integration and validation activities.
- Deliver assigned task within scheduled timeframes and with accountability for quality.
- The Telesat Lightspeed Network Engineering team is responsible for the end-to-end network design of Telesat's Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit network.
- This Co-Op opportunity will leverage software automation and latest AI-based capabilities to help improve and streamline the network engineering team's design, validation and documentation deliverables in preparation for Lightspeed launch.
Requirements
- Experience in software development in Linux based environments
- Experience with Git as a software version control tool and GitHub as a software repository
- Experience with latest AI tools for software development, test and documentation activities such as Co-Pilot, Qodo, Rovo, etc.
- Experience with Ansible IT automation environments
- Demonstrate ability to function in a collaborative work environment.
- Knowledge and/or experience in compute virtualization environments such as VMware ESXi or VirtualBox, Proxmox VE
- Experience with enterprise productivity and collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA.
- Experience with network test tools like Ixia IxNetwork and Spirent TestCenter and related programming APIs
- Proficient in Python programming language for automation and testing tasks
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Nice to Haves:
- General understanding of networking concepts such as IP addressing, ethernet switching and IP routing.
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