Engineering Student - DevOps - Summer 2024

For those who dream of advancing our space in the Universe and on Earth, we will take you there!

Serving the world from our Canadian home and our global offices, MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics & space operations, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. Today, we are leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more.

We are fueled by a pioneering spirit that carries us beyond. And together we enable highly skilled people to continually push boundaries and tackle big challenges requiring solutions that endure and inspire.

Are you ready to launch the next stage of your career in the new space economy? We would love to hear from you!

We are on the hunt for a motivated and talented DevOps Engineering Student in our Digital engineering department at our Montreal office. This is a 4-month internship starting in May 2024.

Overall, the successful candidate would be treated similar to a new graduate joining our company, where tasks will be assigned relative to the level of schooling and experience achieved to date.

The successful candidate will provide support to scrum-teams for the automation of development of embedded system such as satellite payloads and other spacecraft.

As our DevOps Engineering Student, you will:

Responsibilities:

• Support continuous improvement of our delivery pipelines (CI/CD)
• Design, document, and build systems to automate development activities
• Troubleshooting of infrastructure-related issues
• Perform system administration tasks, such as configuration management, creating and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates and supporting tools
• Manage the engineering tools and 3rd party IP (procurement, licensing, installation, upgrade, maintenance renewal, computing capacity planning, …) for PCB design, FPGA, software, RF and Systems

Experience and skills required:

Interested candidates should be working towards a Bachelor’s degree in engineering (electrical, computer) or computer science with three (3) years completed. 

• Experience with version control software (GIT, SVN, …)
• Some knowledge of automation software like Jenkins
• Knowledge of scripting languages like Python, Bash
• Some programming experience
• Experience with installing and configuring new software under windows & Linux
• System administration

Desirable skills:

• Experience with SQL Databases
• Some experience in Web development to provide development teams with GUI tools
• Knowledge to build and deploy Virtual Machines (VMware, VSphere, VirtualBox)

 

Please upload a copy of both your resume and transcript when you apply.

Comments/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 ITAR.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

MDA is an equal opportunity employer prizing diversity and inclusion. We are committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity. If you require assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please feel free to notify us.