System Engineer – ArcGIS (Mission-Focused)

Join Esri's Professional Services team and help design, deploy, and optimize mission-critical geospatial systems that support national security operations. In this role, you will work directly with mission-focused organizations to implement and modernize enterprise ArcGIS environments across complex, secure infrastructures. You will architect and support deployments across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability for high-impact operational systems. Esri offers a Relocation Assistance Program for this position in St. Louis, MO.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure ArcGIS in a wide variety of environments across operation systems, cloud providers, security architectures, customer types, and organizations to meet service level agreements
• Plan and execute the migration of content from one ArcGIS deployment to another, encompassing different architectures, deployment strategies, and software components
• Troubleshoot advanced ArcGIS deployments, providing guidance for platform components such as storage, networking, and security
• Work closely with customers and partners to identify, design, and certify key GIS workflows for the ArcGIS platform
• Collaborate internally to help customer organizations align their technical objectives and business goals with Esri's technology platform

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in a similar position supporting similar responsibilities
• Experience designing, implementing, and/or administrating enterprise ArcGIS or other comparable IT systems (desktop, server, and online)
• Broad system administration experience on Windows and/or Linux
• Working knowledge of at least one scripting or programming language (such as Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, C#)
• Familiarity with network concepts and topics (such as domains, directories, DNS, HTTPS, firewalls, proxies, load-balancing)
• Experience with at least one RDBMS, including SQL query writing (such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL)
• US citizenship with Active or Current (within 2 years of active) Top Secret Security Clearance with SCI eligibility
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), or STEM-related field

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), or STEM-related field
• One or more industry-standard IT certifications (such as Esri, Microsoft, Amazon)
• CompTIA Security+ certification
• Experience with Esri software including ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Online, Portal for ArcGIS, and ArcGIS Runtime and their associated APIs or interfaces
• Cloud-based system operations (SysOps) experience

Benefits

• Industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision
• Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families)
• 401(k) and profit-sharing programs
• Minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave
• Twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the base salary range is $120,640 USD - $197,600 USD.