Telesat

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.

This listing is sourced directly from Telesat's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.