IT Systems Engineer owning Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and macOS/Windows endpoint infrastructure. Supporting Engineered Intelligence’s utility grid management software business across Canada.
About the role
- Principal engineer architecting SkyWatch’s sovereign satellite-data platform for Canadian defence environments. Building the Ottawa team, leading accreditation, interoperability and auditable AI-agent delivery.
Responsibilities
- Own the sovereign product-line architecture and roadmap
- Design deployment architecture for private-cloud, on-premises and air-gapped environments
- Own data segregation, secure multi-tenant distribution and end-to-end security design
- Lead technical evidence for security assessment and authorization, including ITSG-33 controls at Protected B
- Build audit and logging into the product
- Ensure a simple, fast and obvious user experience for analysts and operators under time pressure and disconnected conditions
- Deliver interoperability using NITF/NSIF, SIDD, GeoPackage and STANAG 4559
- Integrate with common operating picture, GIS and TAK environments
- Develop auditable AI-agent workflows over sovereign data, including trace retention and human-in-the-loop workflows
- Evaluate AI answer quality and latency
- Own the Government & Defence roadmap and SDLC
- Act as technical acceptance authority at each delivery milestone
- Make build, accreditation and support decisions balancing customer and company needs
- Hire, lead and grow approximately six Ottawa engineers and two continuously staffed co-op seats over 2027
- Run a co-op mentorship programme with local universities
- Own the government support agent, user experience and knowledge corpus inside the sovereign access boundary
- Report to the CEO and collaborate with government technical authorities
Requirements
- 10+ years building production software, including 3+ years as a principal, architect or technical lead on secure or defence systems
- Hands-on experience with on-premises, private-cloud or air-gapped deployment
- Experience with security assessment and authorization (ITSG-33, NIST 800-53 or equivalent)
- Experience leading an engineering team through milestone-based delivery to a government customer
- Software shaped for analysts or operators that set a high bar for usability, demonstrable at an unclassified level
- Experience making build decisions involving cost to deliver, reuse across customers or time to market
- Canadian citizenship
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a Government of Canada security clearance (Secret or higher)
- Experience with geospatial, imagery or ISR data and defence interoperability standards (strongly preferred)
- Experience deploying LLM or agent systems in regulated environments (preferred)
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- On-site or hybrid work from Ottawa
- Co-op mentorship programme with local universities
- Accommodation support during the recruitment process
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