Compass Point, an Akima Company, is committed to helping government agencies modernize their IT infrastructure and systems to drive innovation and value. Come join an experienced, leading edge team committed to excellence and results. Compass Point offers a challenging and rewarding work environment, competitive salary and benefits, and a wide variety of career development opportunities. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), 100% of our companys profits go back to our more than 14,000 Iupiat shareholders that have resided near and above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years. Our business helps support their way of life and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived in a challenging environment.
Compass Point is looking to hire a GIS Administrator to join us in supporting one of our current government customers at Hurlburt Field, FL. The qualifying candidate will work onsite as a full time GIS Administrator and manage multiple geodatabases in production design, testing, and development environments to support a team that builds synthetic environments flown on Special Operations Forces ground and air simulators; the system provides operational intelligence support to enable integrated SOF mission planning and rehearsal for real-world combat environments.
Significant growth and learning opportunities exist for those who demonstrate initiative, inventiveness, original thought, incisive analysis, and comprehensive synthesis. Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills are required.
Responsibilities:
Monitor geospatial database performance and capacity and implements measures to both improve efficiencies and security of geospatial databases.
Configure hardware and software in coordination with other systems and software.
Gather, analyze, and report data storage metrics.
Be able to perform complex data manipulation, conversion, load and clean up.
Train a wide range of users on the ESRI ArcGIS platforms.
Create small applications, modules, or interfaces; working proficiency with standard programming languages, such as SQL, Python, Java.
Provide project management on longer term GIS requests that have broader scopes and organizational impacts.
Create, edit and maintain technical documentation and instructions for servers, databases, applications and processes.
Develop, implement, and enforce application-related database standards; establish common practices for database design, documentation, naming conventions, security, reporting, and access.
Other duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications:
Active DoD SECRET clearance
Bachelors Degree or 5 years of experience in GIS or related field, 5 years in Oracle experience or PostgreSQL.
Experience with ESRIs ArcGIS suite of software with skills in geodatabase administration, portal administration and PostgreSQL administration, and SQL programming.
Knowledge and experience with ESRI enterprise geodatabase administration, including maintenance and troubleshooting, versioning and replication.
Understanding of GIS fundamentals (coordinates, projections, spatial analysis)
Perform and test system design, upgrades, and maintenance according to business needs
Develop schemas, tables, triggers, indexes, sequences, constraints, functions and procedures
Create and modify SQL queries and stored procedures, implement automated processes, and perform systems upgrades and general troubleshooting.
Plan, design and deploy up-to-date GIS architecture to include both PostgreSQL and GIS server software and hardware.
Experience in conversions of data between PostgreSQL and Oracle.
Understand business requirements and develop database models accordingly
Provide optimal design solutions and perform capacity analysis and tuning.
Develop monitoring tools for system reporting
Use of Microsoft Office Access and Excel
Strong analytical / problem solving skills
The duties and responsibilities listed in this job description generally cover the nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. This is not intended to be a complete list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Subject to the terms of an applicable collective bargaining agreement, the company management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as may be necessary.We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for the position; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
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