Atlassian Specialist with DevOps experience

*REQUIRES SC CLEARANCE*
You'll have extensive hands on experience in administration of Atlassian Tools and you will be experienced in fundamental concepts including:

* Project creation and management
* User & group permissions
* Workflow management (creation and troubleshooting)
* Administation of JIRA plugins eg ScriptRunner
* Licence management of Atlassian application and plugins
* Supporting the wider estate on JIRA issues and requests
* Creating and configuring JIRA boards and JQL queries and filters
* Advise and plan application upgrades, based on release notes including security notices.

You'll have a thorough understanding of the Atlassian Tools (JIRA, Confluence, Crowd and BitBucket). You'll understand the pros and cons of these technologies and have experience on various implementations surrounding them, or similar tools in that technical space.

Whilst the primary focus for this role is the administration of Atlassian products there are a number of other areas where specific skills would be of significant benefit. These include:

* Exposure to AWS infrastructure
* Previous experience with Linux/Unix environments
* Any prior knowledge of supporting products and tools including:
o Nginx
o PostgreSQL
o Terraform
o Atlassian API
o Scripting and automation using bash and Python
* Prior experience of administering Atlassian products on varying architectures (AWS, Kubernetes, Atlassian Cloud)

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.

LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

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