Jr. ArcGIS Systems Engineer

About Us

Larson Design Group (LDG) is an award-winning, employee-owned Architecture, Engineering, and Consulting Firm. Guided by our core values, we're expanding our team, opening new offices, and adding new offerings to provide responsive, innovative solutions to clients nationwide.

Being 100% employee-owned directly impacts our culture: it drives our decision-making, motivates our teams, increases our productivity, improves retention, and contributes to the future success of our company. Our culture is one where we work hard for our clients and for each other - and we have fun collaborating, sharing experience and expertise, and learning along the way. We're passionate about delivering exceptional quality, elevating client relationships, enriching the careers and lives of our employee owners, and enhancing the communities where we live and serve.

At LDG, we strive to create an organization where people want to work. We offer a flexible work environment, paid training for required licensures, competitive benefits, bonus plans, and a company-funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) while supporting your professional and personal growth.

Your Opportunity + Impact

The Arc GIS Systems Engineer is responsible for assessing and providing recommendations to customers related to the appropriate and effective use of ArcGIS software components. Duties include providing actionable advice related to system designs, performance implications, functional limitations, and any other topics that affect system design. Interface with solution architects and enterprise IT staff from a customer organization to explain and guide them through ArcGIS design decisions Communicate technical concepts and ArcGIS platform capabilities to technical and non-technical audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure ArcGIS Enterprise in a wide variety of environments across operating systems, cloud providers, security architectures, customer types, industries, and organizations.
• Configure ArcGIS Enterprise system to meet the customer's service level agreement including high availability, disaster recovery, and security needs.
• Plan and execute the migration of content from one ArcGIS Enterprise deployment to another, encompassing different architectures, deployment strategies, and software components.
• Assist clients with troubleshooting advanced ArcGIS Enterprise deployments.
• Assist with communicating troubleshooting guidance to related platform components such as storage, networking, security.
• Identify performance requirements and understanding from a customer perspective.
• Use Esri tools and industry standard tools to identify performance issues with maps, web services, databases, web applications, and other contexts.
• Provide recommendations to customers related to performance monitoring, management, and improvement across the entire ArcGIS system.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, GIS, or a related field strongly preferred.
• 4+ years of experience designing, implementing, and/or administering enterprise GIS solutions/systems that leverage the ArcGIS platform, specifically ArcGIS Enterprise components.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Esri software including ArcGIS Enterprise components, ArcGIS Enterprise geodatabases, and ArcGIS client applications (mobile and desktop applications).
• Experience with modern software implementation patterns including service-oriented architectures and cloud environments and concepts such as single sign-on authentication or mobile application development patterns.
• Working knowledge of modern web technology; understanding of web servers, the HTTP protocol and methods, modern web browsers, developer tools, web proxies such as Fiddler, and the use of these technologies to troubleshoot web service and website functionality and performance.
• Experience with programming languages; working knowledge of Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, and SQL and when and where they should be used and what they can accomplish.
• Knowledge of user authentication protocols (basic, forms, Kerberos, NTLM, PKI), authentication systems (IWA, proprietary/custom token, SAML), and authorization concepts and systems (RBAC, OAuth)
• Experience with relational database management systems, including SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Oracle, including knowledge of standard SQL usage and database design concepts such as views, triggers, and schemas.
• Understanding of enterprise geodatabase concepts in the ArcGIS platform, and where and why they are used for geospatial data workflows
• Experience with operating system concepts: Windows environments, domain management, sharing and security of filesystems in Windows environments, and general conceptual understanding
• Knowledge of networking concepts and topics such as firewalls, troubleshooting DNS entries, assessing network configuration and performance
• Administrative experience with one or more IaaS cloud platforms strongly preferred

EEO Statement

Larson Design Group, Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.