Geospatial Operations Engineer

Basic Qualifications

• CompTIA Security+ certification or ability to obtain the certification prior to start
• Experience using QGIS, ESRI's ArcGIS software suite, or Open Street Map  (OSM)
• Active Top Secret Clearance to Start with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance

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The Strata program’s mission is to provide geospatial visualization services (GVS) that facilitate access to GEOINT data and products in an online, on‑demand environment to agencies across the Federal Government. The GVS suite of services are provided to the community in various formats to allow integration across a wide variety of client technologies and applications. Strata also provides applications that can be used to visualize GEOINT as well as additional utilities & technologies that aid in visualization.

This role will support the Strata program based out of Herndon, VA. The Dev Sec Ops  Engineer will be a member of the Operations Team who support our enterprise system and services to ensure Strata systems operate well and customer needs are met.

• As part of the Operations team, collaborate with the customer, subcontractors, local engineers, and geographically dispersed teammates and customers to ensure GVS systems operate well according to contractual requirements
• Perform systems maintenance such as security scans, software patching, and troubleshooting operational issues
• Work with customers to solve issues and answer questions regarding GVS capabilities and services.
• Regular on‑call support, outside of 6 am- 6 pm, is required for this position and requires the ability to physically access the Herndon DEP II facility.

• Operational monitoring of OSM services (tile server, Overpass API, Nominatim) and QGIS plugin deployments using tools such as Zabbix and ELK/Splunk
• AWS experience
• Incident‑response coordination for cross‑domain data transfers
• Experience with automated configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet) for multi‑network deployment
• Experience with ESRI's ArcGIS software suite
• BS in software engineering, systems engineering, geographic information systems, related technical field, or equivalent military or job experience
• Active TS/SCI clearance