ArcGIS specialist with ETL/Python
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 12+ Months
Description:
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.
Duties
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
General technology experience
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