GIS Platform Engineer (TS/SCI)

Join Us at the Intersection of Maps and Mission. We're looking for a Senior GIS Platform Engineerto architect, build, and maintain the geospatial backbone of a cutting-edge analytics platform. If you're passionate about scalable GIS data systems, love wrangling spatial data, and want to make a real-world impact-this is your role.

Requires active TS/SCI. Must be open to CI Poly.

Location: Herndon, VA or Westminster, CO. This is a full-time onsite position; hybrid/remote work not supported.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain solutions to support deployment, integration, and sustainment of GIS enterprise tools, specifically with Esri Enterprise capabilities.
• Work with enthusiastic teammates to design, integrate, field new analytic capabilities.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues of the Esri Enterprise stack to include networking, automation pipelines, and infrastructure.

Skills Required

• 8+ years of technical experience in deploying and maintaining software capabilities for the intelligence community, geospatial context, and/or big data analytics:
  • Demonstrated experience with transitioning and maintaining software solutions with the Esri Enterprise or other GIS stacks in secure environments
  • Proficiency with some of the following languages: Python, R, Java, Javascript, bash
• Commercial, open source, and custom application deployments and maintenance experience.
• Demonstrated experience with LINUX system administration and scripting
• Work effectively with a geographically distributed team
• Work onsite 80% or as needs dictate
• Degree or equivalent demonstrated experience in a technical field.
• Active TS/SCI clearance and US citizenship

Additional Skills Desired

• Familiarity with common industry software tools, DevSecOps, and concepts like Data visualization; Data management, Data integration, User Interface, and Databases
• Experience with:
  • Postgres database optimization and maintenance
  • distributed processing methods and tools, such as REST APIs, microservices, IaaS/PaaS services.
  • developing and deploying web services.
  • working with open-source and commercial resources in government computing environments
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud/on-prem architecture, AWS, C2S, OpenShift, etc.
• CompTIA Security+ or comparable certification for privileged user access.
• Experience as a military/intelligence analyst, supporting the military/IC, or knowledge of some IC PED systems is a plus!

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