Sr. ArcGIS Enterprise Platform Specialist/GIS Admin

ZealHire Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. is seeking a hands-on ArcGIS Enterprise specialist to support installation, upgrades, licensing, data stores, and service publishing.

The role covers monitoring, backup, and enterprise geodatabase patterns while coordinating with stakeholders to ensure operational knowledge is retained. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in GIS and strong scripting (Python, PowerShell) with experience in Open Source tools (PostGIS, GeoServer) and ETL/workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in geography, math, computer science, or related field.
• Minimum 6 years of ArcGIS Enterprise experience.
• Strong documentation and stakeholder coordination.

Responsibilities

• Assist in day-to-day administration of ArcGIS Enterprise and GIS infrastructure.
• Handle installation, upgrades, licensing, data stores, and service publishing.
• Develop automation with Python/REST API for reporting and troubleshooting.
• Document architecture, runbooks, and SOPs for knowledge transfer.

Skills

ArcGIS Administration

Python scripting

PowerShell

Documentation

Stakeholder coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in geography/math/CS

Tools

PostGIS

GeoServer

FME

ArcGIS Enterprise

Job description

Local to NY

Interview : Virtual + they may ask to meet onsite

Long term

Remote Project.

Duration : ASAP – 3/31/2028

Role Summary

Hands-on specialist responsible for assistance in the day-to-day administration of ArcGIS Enterprise and its supporting GIS infrastructure. The role spans installation through upgrades, licensing and identity, data stores, service publishing, monitoring, backup/restore, and enterprise geodatabase patterns, plus complementary open-source and ETL tooling and development. Strong documentation and stakeholder coordination are required to ensure operational knowledge is transferred and retained.

Job Duties/Requirements:

• ArcGIS Enterprise experience and support in these areas:
  • Architecture, configuration, maintenance, and installation
  • Administration
  • User management
    • Licensing and entitlement management: named-user types, SAML, OpenID
  • Data Store: installation, configuration, maintenance, backups, and troubleshooting of relational, tile-cache, and spatiotemporal data stores
  • Image Server: configuration, mosaic dataset management, image service publishing, caching, and support for imagery workflows
  • Monitor or other metrics reporting
  • Dashboards
  • Experience Builder
  • Field Maps
  • API for Python and REST API proficiency for automation, reporting, and troubleshooting
  • Hosting
    • Service publishing and performance: map/feature/image services, caching/tiling, symbology, and basic tuning
  • Backup and restore
    • Component backups, high-availability awareness, and ArcGIS Enterprise upgrade experience
• GIS Systems
  • GIS data support and creation expertise
    • Enterprise GDB experience
    • Enterprise geodatabase depth: branch versioning (or traditional), editor tracking, archiving, replicas, and extract-changes patterns for feature audits
    • System design
    • Backup, restore, and upgrade: WebGISDR, equivalent or GeoJobe, component backups, high-availability awareness, and ArcGIS Enterprise upgrade experience
  • Open Source use
    • PostGIS
    • GeoServer
    • Other
• FME/ETL
  • Experience (automation, authoring workbenches)
• Scripting
  • Python expertise
  • PowerShell for Windows/IIS tasks
• Troubleshooting complex systems and architectures
• TLS/SSL certificate signing and import expertise
• Windows Server and IIS administration plus basic networking (DNS, certificates, firewall ports, load-balancer awareness)
• Documentation and knowledge transfer: SOPs, architecture diagrams, and runbooks that support the policy set
• Stakeholder coordination

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in geography, math, computer science, or related.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience.
• An equivalent combination of advanced education, training, and experience will be considered.

$000,000 – $000,000 Salary range is not shown on the candidate portal