Communications Security Establishment Looking for System Integrator and/or DevOps at Ottawa, ON Full Time

Reference number: RF-7517
Closing Date: February 26th, 2023

About the Job

What is CSE?

In short, CSE is a technical intelligence organization that helps protect Canadians.

Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is Canada’s national cryptologic agency. Unique within Canada’s security and intelligence community, CSE employs code-makers, codebreakers, and secure system creators to provide the Government of Canada with cybersecurity and foreign signals intelligence (SIGINT) services. CSE is the national hub for cyber operations to defend Canada and advance national interests, as well as providing technical and operational assistance to federal law enforcement and security agencies.

CSE is committed to diversity and inclusion, as well as offering training opportunities and skill development to all employees. (More information, please see below under “CSE Employment” or visit our CSE Diversity and Inclusion page.)

What’s the job?

CSE is looking for system integrators and/or DevOps of all experience levels to work in a diverse and innovative operational environment. As a system integrator and/or DevOps, you will work on meaningful projects which will have a significant impact on Canada’s security posture (including IT Security and SIGINT) and ensuring the safety of Canadians.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for junior, intermediate, and senior system integrators and/or DevOps who will want to constantly strive for better solutions to keep our country safe, seek to learn more about the cyber challenges around us, and collaborate with partners, colleagues, and teams on complex problems

As an ideal candidate, you will and expand your current knowledge, working with a team to bring together systems and subsystems into a whole to ensure that those function well together. You will be required to perform design analysis of software programs so that they integrate with specific systems/technologies/platforms and offer technical support and system maintenance.

Salary

Salaries range from $91,585 to $124,208, depending on the level.

(More information below under “Additional Details”.)

Location

All jobs are in Ottawa, Ontario. Flexible work arrangements, including telework for a portion of the work week, may be possible. For more information on location, please visit CSE’s page on “Where we work”. CSE locations meet current accessibility standards.

Area of Selection

Open to Canadian citizens.

Required Qualifications

You must clearly demonstrate in your application how you meet these required qualifications:

Language Requirements

English Essential

Required Education

An acceptable combination of education (i.e. professional certification, college diploma, university degree) in a field related to the position and relevant experience (see next section).

Fields related to the position include, but are not limited to: Computer Science; Engineering and Technology (e.g. Computer, Software, Electrical); Mathematics.

The educational program must be recognized in Canada and you must be able to provide proof of education credentials. Students graduating within the next twelve (12) months are eligible to .

Required Experience

Experience with design documentation, configuration management and software deployment to support a system. This includes installation of the system/software, integration of components or sub-systems, development of scripts to build or maintain the system, as well as maintenance of the system and resolution of technical issues.

Recent graduates should note that school projects can be considered as relevant experience.

Required Competencies

(Competencies is our term for skills and/or knowledge. These required competencies are the skills/knowledge we need to see reflected in your interviews for you to be successful.)

Technical competencies

Knowledge and ability to support the enterprise computing infrastructure (e.g. enterprise servers, client server, storage devices and systems, hardware and software) in the provision, management, storage, operation, scheduling, support and maintenance of the infrastructure.

Possesses a generalist’s knowledge of all areas in IT, including but not limited to: Software application development, data storage systems, IT security, IT architecture, system administration, networking, and telecommunications.

The incremental and logical integration and testing of components and/or subsystems and their interfaces in order to create operational systems.

Behavioural competencies

Responding to challenges with innovative solutions, products, or services by questioning conventional means, using intuition, experimentation, and fresh perspectives; understanding, analyzing, synthesizing, and relating complex information and abstract variables.

Demonstrating effective interpersonal skills and working cooperatively and effectively within and across organizational units to achieve common goals.

Leadership competencies

Deliver on commitments through actions that reflect personal accountability, sound judgement, decisiveness, and business acumen.

Asset Qualifications

(Assets are “nice-to-have” expertise and competencies we are interested in. It is good if you have them, but please don’t let it stop you from ing if you think you don’t.)

Asset Specialized Experience

If you have acquired any of the listed Asset Specialized Experience, whether in a professional or academic setting, please clearly demonstrate it in your application. We may take it into consideration to determine your best fit within CSE.

Experience in one or more of the following:

• Technical mentoring and training;
• Cloud Technologies;
• DevOps;
• Relational databases or NoSQL databases;
• Linux distributions (CentOS, Ubuntu);
• Distributed event streaming platforms such as but not limited to (KAFKA);
• Advanced search technologies including but not limited to ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, Splunk, and Spark;
• Object Storage for Hybrid Clouds such as but not limited to (min.io);
• Open-source multi-cluster orchestration platforms such as but not limited to Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher;
• A programming or scripting language such as but not limited to (C++, Python, JavaScript, Java, and Bash);
• Automation deployment tools such as but not limited to Ansible and Terraform;
• Event monitoring and alerting tools such as but not limited to Prometheus and Grafana;
• Software build engineering such as creating build and release strategies, plans or scripts;
• Managing and supporting directories such as but not limited to Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and ForgeRock;
• Working with the inner workings of Geospatial systems such as but not limited to ESRI ArcGIS, ESRI Portal, Open Street Map, and Nominatim; or
• Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning.

Asset Competencies

The following asset competencies may be considered later during the assessment phase.

Technical competencies

Behavioural competencies

Leadership competencies

Asset Languages

In an effort to foster the full recognition and use of both English and French in Canadian society, supporting Part VII of the Official Languages Act, preference may be given to candidates who are currently bilingual in both official languages at a proficiency of BBB or above. Please ensure to highlight in your application if you are bilingual in both official languages or if you possess valid Second Language Evaluation (SLE) results. For additional information regarding what a proficiency level of BBB or above means, please click here.

Application Process

Who Can

You must be a Canadian citizen and be willing to comply with CSE’s own security policies and standards.

Security Requirements

You must have no criminal record. The screening process may involve the following:

• security interview
• polygraph test
• psychological assessment
• background investigation covering a minimum of your last 10 years history, including credit and financial verifications.

How to

You may submit your candidacy online by selecting “” at the bottom of this page.

If you cannot online or have a disability preventing you from ing online, please inform us by contacting careers-carrieres@cse-cst.gc.ca prior to the closing date of this selection process. CSE offers an assessment process that will accommodate any reasonable measures required to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Those measures are available to all candidates for further assessment. Related information received will be addressed confidentially. If you may need such accommodation, please advise us.

What to Expect

• If a manager does not express interest in an application in this time, the application will expire.

The entire selection process – tests, interviews, security investigation – may take more than one year to complete.

If you are deemed to be unsuccessful in the assessment process for this particular selection process, you may re in twelve (12) months.

Additional Details

Salary Ranges by Level

• UNMA-07 level: $91,585 – $106,204 per year
• UNMA-08 level: $99,861 – $115,504 per year
• UNMA-09 level: $107,432 – $124, 208 per year

Your position level is determined by the various assessments in the selection process.

Appointments

Determinate and indeterminate appointments will be used to staff positions of permanent or temporary tenures within CSE. All appointments have a one (1) year probation period.

(A “determinate appointment” is employment for a specific period of time with a defined end date. An “indeterminate appointment” is permanent employment.)

Operational Requirements

Overtime and standby duty may be required.

CSE Employment

CSE is a separate organization and is not subject to the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA). We have our own values-based staffing regime and as such, have the flexibility to determine qualifications for positions and how these qualifications will be assessed in a selection process. In other words, CSE has its own classification, compensation system, and a different staffing regime. As such, we use a different staffing process and terminology.

CSE is committed to the principle of equity in employment. We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of Canadians and to creating an open and inclusive workplace. We encourage you to voluntarily indicate if you are part of one of the groups targeted by employment equity: women, Indigenous people, people with disabilities (including people with learning disabilities, development or any other type of disability) and members of visible minorities.

Training and Development

At CSE, we are proud to offer an inclusive and supportive working environment that encourages open minds and attitudes. As an organization that values and nurtures talent, we are committed to helping you fulfill your potential. With comprehensive training and development opportunities, tailored to your needs and the requirements of your work, we will enable you to flourish in your role and perform to the best of your abilities.

Covid-19 Update

In our ongoing efforts to keep our workplace and communities healthy, CSE continues to closely follow guidance from provincial and federal public health authorities (Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and Public Service and Procurement Canada). While some work has started to resume from the workplace, many of our employees continue to work from home during these unprecedented times.

We thank you for your interest in CSE. However, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.