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• Post :- 3rd Dec 2025

Under the guidance of our Senior DevOps Engineer and Senior Research Data Engineer, the developer will work to upgrade the Geoserver system that helps serve spatial data for our Spatial Data Repository, which is built on the Ruby-on-Rails based GeoBlacklight platform. The developer will upgrade our existing instance of Geoserver, ensuring that the updated system properly functions on AWS and integrates fully with the GeoBlacklight system.

The ideal candidate for this position will possess the following capabilities, skills, and experience.

• Comfortable with Linux command line utilities and standard Git best practices.
• Experience cleaning and optimizing data in various forms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience standing and maintaining a Geoserver instance
• Familiarity with Geospatial metadata, Geospatial files (shapefile, geodatabase, Lidar data..)
• Prior experience in code reviews, providing bug fixes and support.
• Ability to efficiently document workflows and train staff, as needed.
• Ability to collaborate with the GeoBlacklight Community.
• Ability, experience, and desire to work in a hybrid/remote setting.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher.
• 2+ years of prior experience as a web app developer or similar position.
• 2+ years of prior experience developing applications with Java and Maven based applications (Geoserver experience ideal).
• Experience deploying to the Cloud environment (AWS preferred). Understanding of core services (EC2, S3, RDS or equivalents).
• Understanding of PostGIS or similar frameworks.

Experience deploying Java applications with web servers and servlet containers like Tomcat of Eclipse Jetty.