ArcGIS/Geospatial Specialist

Role overview

Administer and improve enterprise GIS systems in a remote role supporting a federal government environment. You will maintain ArcGIS Enterprise services and datasets, automate operational workflows, and help plan platform upgrades and modernization. The work combines day-to-day reliability and performance support with collaboration across infrastructure, cloud, development, and geospatial teams.

Responsibilities

- Configure, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot ArcGIS Enterprise environments, services, datasets, and integrations. - Automate service publication and data refresh workflows across integration, certification, and production environments. - Plan, test, document, and validate platform upgrades, including compatibility checks and rollback plans. - Tune ArcGIS Server performance through load testing, capacity planning, scaling, and resource adjustments. - Support service-health dashboards and monitoring, and contribute to assessments of cloud modernization options. - Maintain operational documentation, performance measures, and change records; coordinate improvements with technical teams.

Requirements

- A bachelor’s degree in GIS, computer science, IT, geography, engineering, or a related technical field. - At least five years of experience in GIS administration, geospatial engineering, or a closely related role. - Experience administering ArcGIS Enterprise, including ArcGIS Server, and publishing and troubleshooting enterprise GIS services and datasets. - Experience automating geospatial workflows, service publication, or data management. - Experience supporting platform upgrades, maintenance, compatibility testing, and enterprise integrations. - Ability to monitor and troubleshoot GIS platform performance and availability, use scripting or automation, and document changes. - Willingness to undergo a government background investigation.

Nice to have

- Experience in federal government or another large enterprise environment. - Python, ArcPy, ArcGIS API for Python, GIS administration utilities, or service-health monitoring tools. - Experience with load testing, CI/CD, cloud-hosted GIS, AWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, federal IT security practices, or relevant Esri and cloud certifications.