Atlassian Specialist
Posted 5 days ago by Experis UK
Negotiable
Inside
Undetermined
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Atlassian Specialist role focuses on administering the Atlassian toolset, including Jira, Confluence, Crowd, and BitBucket, while also integrating DevOps practices. The position requires planning and implementing updates, ensuring tool functionality, and collaborating with testing teams. Candidates should possess extensive experience with Atlassian products and familiarity with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS. Strong communication skills and a solid understanding of CI environments are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Atlassian Administration
- Supporting the Atlassian Toolset (Jira, Confluence, Crowd and BitBucket)
- Planning and implementing tool updates / patches according to the programme approach achieving a 'continual cadence' of updates measuring upgrade benefit (to our platform) on the Atlassian monthly releases
- Ensuring all plug-ins are maintained and kept up to date
- Working with test team to ensure test coverage functional/non-functional
- Working with automated CI pipelines for the Atlassian toolset
- Debugging issues
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience as an Atlassian Administrator and a relationship with the Atlassian vendor
- Good communication skills, both in written and verbal form
- Knowledge in new technologies (Docker / Kubernetes)
- Extremely sound knowledge of Linux
- Understanding of CI environments and how they facilitate the automation process with other orchestration tools
- Experience of building infrastructure in the cloud and designing for the cloud, particularly with AWS
- Understanding of the concepts of projects, issues, spaces, pages and repositories
- Experience creating and deploying dashboards, agile/scrum boards, workflows, custom fields and schemes in JIRA
- Understanding of application linking, gadget and macro feeds
- Experience with PostgreSQL is a definite plus
- Good documentation principles
- Previous application support and/or a DevOps background is a plus
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Atlassian Specialist (with DevOps experience)
Max Rate: 700-780p/d via Umbrella#
Duration: 7 Months
Clearance required: BPSS + SC submission to Home Office / Sole UK National
Location: London
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Atlassian Administration
- Supporting the Atlassian Toolset (Jira, Confluence, Crowd and BitBucket)
- Planning and implementing tool updates / patches according to the programme approach achieving a 'continual cadence' of updates measuring upgrade benefit (to our platform) on the Atlassian monthly releases
- Ensuring all plug-ins are maintained and kept up to date
- Working with test team to ensure test coverage functional/non-functional
- Working with automated CI pipelines for the Atlassian toolset
- Debugging issues
Things We Seek
- Extensive experience as a Atlassian Administrator and a relationship with the Atlassian vendor.
- Good communication skills, both in written and verbal form.
- Knowledge in new technologies (Docker / Kubernetes)
- Extremely sound knowledge of Linux.
- Understanding of CI environments and how they facilitate the automation process with other orchestration tools.
- Experience of building infrastructure in the cloud and designing for the cloud. We primarily work with AWS so knowledge in this area is particularly valuable.
- Show understanding of the concepts of projects, issues, spaces, pages and repositories
- Have previously created and deployed dashboards, agile/scrum boards, workflows, custom fields and schemes in JIRA
- Understands application linking, gadget and macro feeds.
- How roles, permissions and security levels work within the different apps and how they can be managed from a central user directory.
- Experience with PostgreSQL a definite plus.
- Good documentation principles.
- Previous application support and/or a DevOps background is a plus.
Things We Like
- Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Crowd, Bitbucket)
- Jenkins Cl
- Linux
- AWS
- Git / Github / Gitlab
- Bash and Python
- SQL / NO-SQL DB's
- Nginx