GIS Enterprise Administrator
Listed on 2025-12-31
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing, IT Consultant
At Weston Solutions, Inc. you will do meaningful work and make valuable contributions. Employee ownership at Weston is a path to professional growth and access to diverse opportunities in a highly connected community that works together across key service areas to make a difference in the environment. Weston has continued to evolve and adapt to our changing world as a premier provider of environmental and infrastructure services for over sixty years.
In both the public and private sectors, our teams help identify, solve, mitigate, and manage critical environmental issues to help clients achieve a more sustainable future.
Weston is seeking a GIS Administrator. The GIS Enterprise Administrator will own the administration, performance, and reliability of our Esri ArcGIS Enterprise platform across Azure and AWS. This role sits at the intersection of GIS and IT, and will manage ArcGIS Enterprise, optimize enterprise geodatabases (SDE), tune and monitor map/feature services using ArcGIS Monitor, and collaborate with infrastructure, data, and project teams to support high‑availability, client‑facing geospatial solutions.
Location:
Remote
- Install, configure, and maintain ArcGIS Enterprise components (Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Data Store, web adaptors, and related extensions).
- Manage multi‑machine ArcGIS Server sites, high‑availability Portal/Data Store configurations, and staging/production environments.
- Plan and execute ArcGIS Enterprise upgrades, patches, and security updates with minimal downtime.
- Administer Esri ArcGIS Enterprise licensing across Portal, ArcGIS Server, and ArcGIS Pro, ensuring proper allocation of Named Users, extensions, and service credits.
- Maintain and monitor Esri license files, entitlement records, and renewals.
- Coordinate with Esri Customer Service and internal procurement to ensure compliance.
- Manage ArcGIS Enterprise User Types, Roles, and Groups; implement governance rules that align with security and implementation models.
- Track license utilization, usage trends, and capacity.
- Configure and manage enterprise geodatabases (e.g., SQL Server, Postgre
SQL, Oracle) used by ArcGIS Enterprise. - Implement and maintain versioning, replication, indexing, compression, and maintenance routines for performance and reliability.
- Collaborate with GIS data teams on schema design, data lifecycle, and optimization for heavy map/feature service workloads.
- Configure and maintain ArcGIS Monitor (or Esri System Monitor) to track service health, response times, and resource utilization.
- Proactively analyze logs and metrics to identify bottlenecks in services, databases, and infrastructure.
- Tune service parameters, caching strategies, pooling, and infrastructure sizing to improve performance and stability.
- Coordinate with IT Security team to implement and maintain security best practices for Portal, Server, and databases (roles, groups, sharing models, SSL, firewalls, IP restrictions).
- Coordinate with IT security on hardening, identity management (AD/SSO), and vulnerability remediation.
- Enforce governance standards for service publishing, naming conventions, and content lifecycle.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for ArcGIS Enterprise issues and requests from GIS analysts, developers, and project teams.
- Support publishing and troubleshooting of map/image/feature services, including integration with web apps, dashboards, and third‑party systems.
- Develop and maintain documentation for system architecture, SOPs, runbooks, and knowledge base…
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