ArcGIS/Geospatial Specialist

ArdentMC; United States; A distancia; USD 90.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

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Descripción de la vacante

Ardent is seeking an ArcGIS/Geospatial Specialist to support enterprise geospatial systems, platform operations, and modernization initiatives in a federal government environment. The role focuses on administering ArcGIS Enterprise environments, upgrades, automation of workflows, and ensuring reliability across GIS services, with collaboration across infrastructure and development teams.

The position requires a Bachelor's in GIS or related field and 5+ years of GIS admin experience, including

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in GIS, Computer Science, IT, Geography or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional GIS systems administration or closely related roles.
• Experience administering Esri ArcGIS Enterprise environments and ArcGIS Server.
• Experience configuring, publishing, maintaining, and troubleshooting enterprise GIS services.

Responsabilidades

• Administer, configure, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot ArcGIS Enterprise environments and datasets.
• Automate ArcGIS service publication and data refresh workflows across environments.
• Plan, test, and document ArcGIS Enterprise upgrades including rollback planning.
• Deploy and maintain geospatial administration tools like GeoJobe Admin Tools and CleanMyOrg.
• Perform server load testing, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Support service-health dashboards and integration with observability tools.
• Collaborate on modernization planning for ArcGIS on AWS/EKS and cloud infra.
• Document performance metrics and change-management records.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, development, and geospatial teams for reliability.

Conocimientos

GIS administration

Automation

Scripting

Cloud architecture

Documentation

System monitoring

Educación

Bachelor's degree in GIS or related field

Herramientas

Esri ArcGIS Enterprise

ArcGIS Server

ArcPy

ArcGIS API for Python

GeoJobe Admin Tools

CleanMyOrg

Descripción del empleo

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 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.

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As set forth in Ardent’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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