Atlassian Specialist

Summary: The role of Atlassian Specialist involves managing and supporting the Atlassian toolset, including Jira, Confluence, Crowd, and BitBucket, while ensuring timely updates and maintenance. The position requires collaboration with testing teams and the use of automated CI pipelines, alongside a strong background in DevOps practices. The candidate must possess extensive experience in Atlassian administration and familiarity with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS. Clearance requirements include BPSS and SC submission to the Home Office for UK nationals.

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 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.

Salary (Rate): £780.00 Daily

City: London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

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