ArcGIS/Geospatial Specialist

Ardent; Oregon; Ibrido; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Ardent is seeking an ArcGIS/Geospatial Specialist to support enterprise geospatial systems, platform operations, and modernization initiatives in a federal government environment. This is a remote position.

You will administer ArcGIS Enterprise environments, automate workflows, plan upgrades, and collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, development, and geospatial teams to ensure reliability and performance.

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree or higher in GIS/CS/IT/Geography/Engineering.
• 5+ years of professional GIS administration or closely related roles.
• Experience administering Esri ArcGIS Enterprise environments including ArcGIS Server.
• Experience configuring, publishing, maintaining, and troubleshooting enterprise GIS services/datasets.
• Experience automating geospatial workflows, service publication, or data management processes.
• Experience supporting ArcGIS Enterprise upgrades, maintenance, and compatibility testing.
• Knowledge of enterprise GIS architecture, system integrations, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Experience monitoring GIS platform performance, availability, and issues.
• Familiarity with scripting/automation in enterprise GIS environments.
• Experience developing technical documentation and supporting change-management procedures.

Mansioni

• Administer, configure, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot ArcGIS Enterprise environments, geospatial services, datasets, and integrations.
• Automate ArcGIS service publication and data refresh workflows across integration, certification, and production environments.
• Plan, test, execute, and document ArcGIS Enterprise upgrades, including compatibility testing, rollback planning, and post-upgrade validation.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain geospatial administration tools, including GeoJobe Admin Tools and CleanMyOrg.
• Perform ArcGIS Server load testing, performance tuning, capacity planning, scaling optimization, and resource right-sizing.
• Support ArcGIS service-health dashboards, system monitoring, and integration with enterprise observability tools.
• Contribute to assessments and modernization planning for ArcGIS Enterprise on Amazon EKS, including architecture, cost, security, operational risks, and migration considerations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, development, and geospatial teams to support system reliability and operational improvements.
• Maintain technical documentation, performance metrics, and change-management records.

Conoscenze

GIS proficiency

Geospatial engineering

Scripting/automation

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in GIS/CS/IT/Geography/Engineering

Strumenti

Esri ArcGIS Enterprise

ArcGIS Server

GeoJobe Admin Tools

CleanMyOrg

ArcGIS Monitor

AWS

Amazon EKS

Kubernetes

ArcGIS API for Python

ArcPy

CI/CD pipelines

Descrizione del lavoro

Ardent is seeking an ArcGIS/Geospatial Specialist to join our team. This is a remote position.

Position Description

Ardent is seeking an ArcGIS/Geospatial Specialist to support enterprise geospatial systems, platform operations, and modernization initiatives in a federal government environment. The ArcGIS/Geospatial Specialist will be responsible for administering, maintaining, and optimizing ArcGIS Enterprise environments, supporting platform upgrades, automating geospatial workflows, and ensuring the reliability and performance of enterprise GIS services. This role will collaborate with technical teams to support geospatial infrastructure modernization, system monitoring, and cloud architecture assessments.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Administer, configure, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot ArcGIS Enterprise environments, geospatial services, datasets, and integrations.
• Automate ArcGIS service publication and data refresh workflows across integration, certification, and production environments.
• Plan, test, execute, and document ArcGIS Enterprise upgrades, including compatibility testing, rollback planning, and post-upgrade validation.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain geospatial administration tools, including GeoJobe Admin Tools and CleanMyOrg.
• Perform ArcGIS Server load testing, performance tuning, capacity planning, scaling optimization, and resource right-sizing.
• Support ArcGIS service-health dashboards, system monitoring, and integration with enterprise observability tools.
• Contribute to assessments and modernization planning for ArcGIS Enterprise on Amazon EKS, including architecture, cost, security, operational risks, and migration considerations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, development, and geospatial teams to support system reliability and operational improvements.
• Maintain technical documentation, performance metrics, and change-management records.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Computer Science, Information Technology, Geography, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in GIS systems administration, geospatial engineering, or closely related technical roles.
• Experience administering and supporting Esri ArcGIS Enterprise environments, including ArcGIS Server.
• Experience configuring, publishing, maintaining, and troubleshooting enterprise GIS services and datasets.
• Experience automating geospatial workflows, service publication, or data management processes.
• Experience supporting ArcGIS Enterprise upgrades, system maintenance, and compatibility testing.
• Knowledge of enterprise GIS architecture, system integrations, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting GIS platform performance, availability, and operational issues.
• Familiarity with scripting or automation technologies used in enterprise GIS environments.
• Experience developing technical documentation and supporting established change-management procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting GIS systems within federal government or other large enterprise environments.
• Experience with Python, ArcPy, or ArcGIS API for Python. Experience with GeoJobe Admin Tools, CleanMyOrg, or similar GIS administration utilities.
• Experience with ArcGIS Monitor, service-health dashboards, or enterprise monitoring solutions.
• Experience with ArcGIS Server load testing, performance optimization, and capacity planning. Familiarity with AWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, or cloud-hosted GIS infrastructure.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines or automated GIS service deployment.
• Knowledge of federal IT security standards and change-management requirements.
• Relevant Esri or cloud technology certifications.

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process. We highly encourage all Veterans and those with disabilities to apply.

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other basis protected by state, local, or federal law.