Engineering Student - DevOps - Winter 2027

Macdonald, Dettwiler And Associates Corporation; Quebec; Hybrid; CAD 17,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

MDA Space is seeking a motivated DevOps Engineering Student for a 4-month internship in Montreal. The role focuses on supporting embedded systems development through automation of build and deployment pipelines, configuration management, and tooling support.

You will collaborate with scrum teams to automate development activities, gain experience with CI/CD, IaC, and virtualization tools, and contribute to hardware and software integration efforts while developing in a bilingual environment.

Qualifications

• Pursuing Bachelor’s degree in electrical, computer engineering or computer science.
• Strong foundational knowledge in software development and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Support continuous improvement of delivery pipelines (CI/CD).
• Design, document, and build systems to automate development activities.
• Troubleshooting of infrastructure‑related issues.
• Perform system administration tasks and create IaC templates and tools.
• Manage engineering tools and third‑party IP procurement, licensing, installation and maintenance for PCB design, FPGA, software, RF and systems.

Skills

Git

SVN

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Automation

Linux

Windows

VMware

VSphere

VirtualBox

GUI tools

French-English

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering (Electrical, Computer) or CS

Tools

Jenkins

Job description

Job Category: Engineering

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Locations

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC H9X3R2, CAN

Description

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 4 000 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.

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 January 2027.

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
• Bilingual French and English (Contact with customers outside Québec).
• 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)

Comments/Special Considerations

Successful candidates must obtain and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP).

MDA is proud to provide accommodation(s) during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodations, please indicate this on your application/cover letter and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.