Cloud GIS Administrator / Engineer

SAIC · Virginia beach, United States

SAIC is seeking a GIS Administration Cloud Engineer to support federal geospatial cloud-hosting clients in AWS, delivering high-availability ArcGIS Enterprise platforms across Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes. You will provide technical leadership and hands-on administration of ArcGIS Enterprise systems (installation, patching/upgrading, security) and design, automate, and maintain cloud infrastructure using IaC and CI/CD. Administer, configure, and optimize ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise on Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes in cloud-hosted environments.
Support and enhance ArcGIS Enterprise architectures on EC2 and containerized (Kubernetes) deployments.
Jira), handling requests, incidents, and changes for federal geospatial hosting customers.
Serve as technical lead for cloud infrastructure design, deployment, and maintenance (AWS, Azure, or other major clouds) for resilient, scalable GIS workloads.
Terraform/Terragrunt) for automated provisioning and configuration of GIS and supporting components.
Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) for ArcGIS Enterprise configurations, custom extensions, and infrastructure.
Support and enhance ArcGIS for Kubernetes deployments, including cluster configuration, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Collaborate with cloud and security teams to meet federal security and compliance requirements.
Troubleshoot complex issues across application, OS, network, and cloud layers; perform root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
Create and maintain documentation (architectures, SOPs, runbooks, configuration baselines).
Participate in on-call or after-hours maintenance windows as required.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, GIS, Engineering, or related field; ArcGIS Server, Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Data Store, and related components.
~ Administration on both Windows and Linux.
~3+ years as a Cloud Engineer with at least one major provider (AWS, Azure, GCP), including: Provisioning and managing compute, storage, and network resources.
~ Implementing monitoring, logging, and backup for cloud-hosted workloads.
~ Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps), including integration of source control, testing, and deployment.
~Cluster configuration, management, and troubleshooting.
~ Deploying and managing containerized applications.
~ Jira, ServiceNow) managing incidents, service requests, and changes.
~ Strong understanding of network fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPCs, routing) for cloud-hosted applications and ArcGIS Enterprise.
~ Hands-on deployment, administration, and troubleshooting of ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes.
Production use for complex, multi-environment cloud infrastructure.
Implementing GitHub Actions or GitLab CI for infrastructure and application deployments.
Cloud networking: Designing/supporting AWS architectures, private/public subnets, security groups/NSGs, peering, and performance optimizations.
GIS enterprise architecture: Integrating ArcGIS Enterprise with external identity providers, databases, and application stacks.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
Esri certifications in geospatial administration or management.

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