ArcGIS/Geospatial Specialist

Ardent; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ardent is seeking an ArcGIS/Geospatial Specialist to support enterprise geospatial systems and modernization initiatives in a federal government environment. The role focuses on administering ArcGIS Enterprise environments, automating workflows, and ensuring reliability across GIS services.

Responsibilities include upgrades, monitoring, and collaboration with infrastructure and development teams. A strong GIS background with ArcGIS Server and automation scripting is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in GIS, CS, IT, geography or engineering.
• Minimum 5 years in GIS systems administration or related roles.
• Experience with ArcGIS Enterprise environments and ArcGIS Server.
• Experience with enterprise GIS services, datasets, and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and maintain ArcGIS Enterprise environments and services.
• Automate ArcGIS publication and data refresh workflows across environments.
• Plan, test, and document ArcGIS Enterprise upgrades and validation.
• Deploy and maintain geospatial admin tools (GeoJobe, CleanMyOrg).
• Perform ArcGIS Server load testing and capacity planning.
• Support service health dashboards and observability integrations.
• Collaborate on modernization efforts for ArcGIS Enterprise on AWS/EKS and cloud infra.

Skills

ArcGIS Enterprise administration

Automation scripting

System monitoring

Geospatial engineering

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in GIS/related field

Tools

ArcGIS Enterprise

ArcGIS Server

GeoJobe Admin Tools

CleanMyOrg

ArcGIS Monitor

AWS

Amazon EKS

Kubernetes

ArcPy

ArcGIS API for Python

Job description

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.

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.

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For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey.Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file.

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.

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.