[postgis-users] Job Post

[gdi ottawa]

DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR, GDI Research and Development Group

Immediate opportunity for a Project Database Administrator focusing on a
corporate enterprise solution for Utilities across North America.  Based out
of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, you will leverage your knowledge and experience
in leading GDI’s Enterprise IT solutions.

The successful candidate will be responsible to provide senior-level
technical expertise in IT and database analysis, design, development and
implementation for our commercial delivery.

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*Responsibilities:*

*Initial:*

   - Assist in the implementation of a corporate database that contains data
   on GDI data acquisition systems, aerial and terrestrial surveying projects,
   and customer infrastructure. This includes a mirror of the database at each
   GDI’s location as required by data processing activities.
   - Assist in the implementation of a system for the storage of non-lexical
   digital data items such as aerial images, point clouds, and documents that
   are related to objects in the database but may not be stored in the
   database. This includes a full or partial mirror of these data items at each
   GDI location as required by data processing activities,* *and tracking of
   physical media that are shipped between locations for the communication of
   large volumes of high density data.

*Ongoing:*

   - Maintain the corporate production database.
   - Maintain the storage of non-lexical digital data items such as aerial
   images, point clouds, and documents.
   - Install, configure, and maintain web services software that will serve
   requests involving data in the corporate database and the non-lexical data
   store both from inside and outside GDI.
   - Run, maintain, and refine the data security and disaster recovery
   systems for the corporate database and non-lexical data store.
   - Make recommendations for hardware and communications connections
   modifications.
   - Support GDI software developers in the development of database, web
   services, and web client software.



*Qualifications:*

*General work experience and Education:*

   - Minimum of 5 years experience with an increasing level of
   responsibility in administering a enterprise-level database system managed
   by a relational database management system and / or GIS enterprise projects;
   and
   - Minimum of 3 years experience in researching, selecting, installing,
   configuring, integrating and maintaining web services software.
   - Knowledge of development methodologies over the above period of
   experience.


   - University bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems
   or GIS.

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*Special knowledge, skills, and experience:*

   - Database design and configuration competency that involves geographic
   data and enterprise database management systems with spatial extensions
   (e.g., Oracle with the Spatial option, PostgreSQLwith the PostGIS extension
   and ESRI ArcSDE).
   - Knowledge of ESRI software, and experience in installing, configuring,
   and maintaining ArcGIS Server software.
   - Familiarity with OGC Web Services standards and experience in
   selecting, installing, configuring, and maintaining one or more
   implementations of one or more of these services.
   - Managing security levels, permissions and privileges at both database
   and web services level and monitoring any breaches.
   - Have specific familiarity with Project and Programme Management
   Methodologies to manage third party development and integration projects.


Please send your detailed resume to gdiottawajobs at gmail.com
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