GIS System Engineer

Seeking a US Veteran, Guardsman, Reservist, and/or Military Spouse for a full-time System Engineer to serve as an enterprise technology professional for the Enterprise Architecture Practice Area, providing technical direction and problem-solving expertise for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) projects.

Pay Rate: $60-$66/hour

Travel Required: Travel can be up to 50% at times depending on client and project requirements

Essential Duties and Accountabilities:

• Provides technical expertise for system design, implementation, assessment, consulting, hosting, and managed service engagements.
• Builds enterprise system solutions based on prescribed architecture designs involving infrastructure provisioning and core software installation and configuration.
• Automates and orchestrates enterprise system solution deployments to support repeatable process development and efficient implementation strategies.
• Creates and manages database solutions, including enterprise geodatabases.
• Ensures enterprise system solutions and deliverables are thoroughly tested, vetted, reviewed, and meet customer expectations.
• Contributes to GIS Enterprise Architecture workshops and related discussions involving utility customers and prepares relevant materials in advance.
• Serves as a member of the UDC Information Technology (IT) team, supporting internal technology needs based on a targeted billable-overhead ratio. This includes setup and administration tasks for managing physical server, storage, network, and appliance infrastructure in UDC datacenters.
• Facilitates technical deliverables for projects and the Practice Area, including requirements gathering, test cases, administration guides, deployment manuals, and other specification documentation related to software, hardware, network, database and enterprise geodatabase, storage, security, integration, and other enterprise components.
• Provides technical guidance and consulting for UDC's clients to embrace security in their datacenters and educates UDC's clients on what it takes to create and manage a private network from a network communications and administration standpoint.
• Provides technical enterprise system assistance for software development teams, quality assurance personnel, and training staff when required.
• Creates and executes GIS system tuning and system threshold testing procedures, analyzes resulting performance metrics, and develops recommendations.
• Manages software application licensing and ensures license agreements are followed.
• Trains UDC onshore and offshore personnel to manage GIS infrastructure resources to support managed service engagements.
• Educates others, internally and externally, on methodologies pertaining to enterprise system technologies.
• Stays up to date on partner, competitor, and market-leading enterprise system solutions.
• Partners with internal staff, business partners, and customers to build relationships and elevate UDC's presence and reputation in the GIS enterprise system market.
• Serves as a mentor for others interested in enterprise system technologies to assist with knowledge