[ref. w18227604] GIS Administrator (Active Secret Clearance required)

Overview:

The qualifying candidate will work onsite as a full time GIS Administrator and manage multiple geodatabases in production design, testing, and development.

Significant growth and learning opportunities exist for those who demonstrate initiative, inventiveness, original thought, incisive analysis, and comprehensive synthesis. Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills are required.

Responsibilities:

• Creates small applications, modules, or interfaces, and work proficiency with standard programming languages, such as SQL, Python, or Java.
• Monitors database performance and capacity and implement measures to both improve efficiencies and security of geospatial databases.
• Be able to perform complex data manipulation, conversion, load and clean up.
• Develops, implements, and enforces application-related database standards; establish common practices for database design, documentation, naming conventions, security, reporting, and access.
• Configures hardware and software in coordination with other systems and software.
• Trains a wide range of users on the ESRI ArcGIS platforms.
• Gathers, analyzes, and reports data storage metrics.
• Provides project management on long-term GIS requests that have broader scopes and organizational impacts.
• Creates, edits, and maintains technical documentation and instructions for servers, databases, applications and processes.
• Other duties as required.

Qualifications:

• Active or be able to obtain a DoD SECRET clearance
• Bachelor’s Degree or 5 years in relational spatial databases and 5 years of experience in GIS or related field,
• Experience with ESRIs ArcGIS suite of software with skills in geodatabase administration, portal administration and spatial database administration, and SQL programming.
• Knowledge and experience with ESRI enterprise geodatabase administration, including maintenance and troubleshooting, versioning and replication.
• Understanding of GIS fundamentals (coordinates, projections, spatial analysis)
• Perform and test system design, upgrades, and maintenance according to business needs
• Develop schemas, tables, triggers, indexes, sequences, constraints, functions and procedures
• Create and modify SQL queries and stored procedures, implement automated processes, and perform systems upgrades and general troubleshooting.
• Plan, design and deploy up-to-date GIS architecture to include both PostgreSQL and GIS server software and hardware.
• Understand business requirements and develop database models accordingly
• Provide optimal design solutions and perform capacity analysis and tuning.
• Develop monitoring tools for system reporting
• Use of Microsoft Office Access and Excel
• Strong analytical / problem solving skills