JIRA Administrator

Summary: The role of Jira Administrator involves managing and administering Jira and Confluence systems for a 6-month contract near Bath. The position requires a hybrid working arrangement with 1-2 days on-site each week, focusing on the administration, configuration, and enhancement of Atlassian software tools. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Jira, including database management and upgrades, as well as familiarity with government or defense environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ongoing administration and management of Jira and Confluence systems.
• Management of access controls.
• Design and implementation of workflow automations and dashboards.
• Task data management, manipulation, and reporting.
• Creation of JIRA and Confluence dashboards in support of new initiatives or at the request of the programme manager.
• Data analysis and metric creation to support programme delivery using the Atlassian toolset.
• Configuration of Atlassian bolt-on applications (Big Picture/Align).
• Demonstration and coaching of Atlassian products to programme teams.

Key Skills:

• Knowledge of the Atlassian range of software (Confluence, Bitbucket, JIRA).
• Experience of Jira database schemes and datasets.
• Extensive experience of JQL.
• Previous experience of planning, preparing, and executing upgrades of Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence.
• Previous experience of verifying and validating upgrades to Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence and applying bulk data changes and fixes.
• Microsoft Windows Operating Systems (both server and client).
• Government/Defence experience.
• Desirable: Microsoft Powershell CLI.
• ITIL foundation knowledge (change management etc).
• Knowledge of Microsoft server applications (such as SCCM).
• SC Clearance.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Corsham

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT