GIS Analyst Entry

Minimum Pay Rate: $81,244.80 

Maximum Pay Rate: $107,577.60 

Civil Service Status: Civil Service

Apply by Date: 09/17/2025 

Posting Type: Open 

 

We are looking for a motivated GIS Enterprise Technical Analyst to join our team. This role is ideal for someone early in their GIS career who is eager to grow, learn, and contribute to a highly technical enterprise environment. Whether you are just starting out or have a couple of years of experience, this is a great opportunity to build your skills alongside a highly experienced team that supports enterprise GIS systems Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD).

 

Purpose:
As part of our IT GIS team, you will help maintain, support, and improve our enterprise GIS platform, working on everything from system administration and application support to data management and integrations with other business systems. You will gain hands-on experience with Esri technologies, enterprise databases, and cloud-based environments, while learning best practices in security, performance, and system reliability.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support for the enterprise GIS platform, including ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Pro, and related applications
• Assist with system administration tasks such as user management, service publishing, and performance monitoring
• Support integration of GIS with other enterprise systems (e.g., work management, asset management, customer service tools)
• Perform data updates, quality checks, and process automation to maintain accurate and reliable spatial data
• Troubleshoot issues reported by business users and coordinate resolutions with the GIS team
• Contribute to documentation, workflows, and standard operating procedures
• Participate in testing, upgrades, and deployment of GIS applications and services

 

If you have a solid foundation in GIS concepts, a curious mindset, and the drive to develop your technical expertise, we encourage you to apply.

 

We are posting this opportunity for the GIS Analyst Entry along with our GIS Analyst Journey level position. The department will be filling one position at either of those levels. If you are interested in the GIS Analyst Journey position you will need to apply to that position separately.

 

SMUD Official Classification: Associate Enterprise Technology Analyst Entry

Purpose

Under close supervision, performs the more basic business processes and technical support utilizing SMUD's various enterprise and other integrated technology solutions in the areas of design, configuration, operation, maintenance, and enhancement; assists in serving as a functional resource to the user community to ensure reliability, accessibility and effectiveness to meet the needs of the business unit overall. 

Nature and Scope

There are five (5) levels in this job classification series that have similar job content but with progressively more challenging degrees and levels of skill, responsibility, knowledge, experience and qualification requirements:  

  

Flex Classifications (that permit progression from lower-level classes to higher level classes without examination based upon assessment of an individual’s experience and performance) within the series:

 

• Entry: Incumbent acquires knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the tasks associated within the series but are not yet demonstrating these at the Journey level.  
• Intermediate: Incumbent continues to acquire the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the tasks associated within the series but are not yet demonstrating these at the Journey level.  
• Journey: Incumbent is demonstrating the required skills and knowledge to independently perform the full scope of the job.  
   

Non-Flex Classifications (that promote from lower-level classes to higher level classes and require an examination, such as an interview, based upon individual experience and performance) within the series:  

 

• Senior: Advanced journey level resource who is responsible for advanced assignments, as dictated by the work needing to be performed; may also serve in a lead capacity.
• Principal: Subject matter expert/lead level and is responsible for leading the most advanced work, as dictated by the work needing to be performed.   
   

Entry/Intermediate to Journey: Incumbents at the entry (or intermediate) level are required to successfully “progress” to the journey level within 60 months of appointment to