Atlassian Application Support Engineer

Job description:

This contract with our central government client is for a Atlassian Application Support Engineer for 6 months. The role is located in East Kilbride, Glasgow, with occasional travel to London. The pay rate for this role is up to £750 per day UMB, dependant on experience.  

As the Atlassian Application Operations Engineer you will have a deep understanding of Atlassian tools, plug ins and underlying technology. You would be responsible for the ongoing maintenance and development of their Atlassian tools supporting their digital service.  

Your role will be supporting, maintaining, and developing their on-premise (Data Centre) installation of Atlassian products including Jira Software, Jira Service Management and Confluence.  

Responsibilities:  

- Administer the back-end Atlassian infrastructure and ensure the platform is highly available, reliable and secure  

- Leading the Upgrading of Atlassian Data Centre products and plug-ins, working closely with O/S and DB specialists  

- Building a replica of Production in DEV  

- Upgrading in repeatable steps until confident to replicate Production upgrade  

- Administrate the patching, backup and recovery of the Atlassian infrastructure  

- Configure in a Staging environment a Data Centre instance supporting a resilient system (load balanced and distributed)  

- Support the business in creating Jira projects and Confluence spaces  

- Creating workflows, fields, screens, reports, dashboards etc. based on custom requirements  

- Provide new ideas or processes for using the Atlassian suite more effectively  

- Determine ways to optimise/improve Jira process workflows, as well as identify where functionality can/cannot meet user requests  

- Develop metrics dashboards and advanced filters in Jira to provide end-users and business leadership with meaningful operational/performance metrics and status reports  

- Manage all add-ons and integrations  

- Provide user and JIRA Admin training  

- Manage and own any documentation to aid support of the Atlassian suite.

Requirements:

Essential Skills:  

- Experience in the Atlassian Data Centre administration, configuration and support of Jira and Confluence  

- Proven track history of upgrading Data Centre configurations and resilient infrastructure  

- In-depth Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence configuration and workflow changes  

- Jira projects, access and administration  

- Deep understanding of Atlassian architecture, focusing on JIRA, Jira Service Management and Confluence with a deep understanding of modularised workflows, permission schemes, notification schemes  

- Proven ability to quickly pick up and understand complex technical issues and come up with solutions  

- Skills to develop solutions for integration with other tools, automate manual processes, data migration routines and extract data for reporting and analytics purposes  

- Jira add-ons, associated plug-ins and extension  

- JIRA reporting and report filters  

- Experience in a technical customer support role  

Desirable Skills:  

- Working knowledge of using Jira REST API or other REST based web services  

- Skills to develop solutions for integration with other tools, automate manual processes, data migration routines and extract data for reporting and analytics purposes  

- Proficiency in Linux server support and configuration as well as command line troubleshooting utilities  

- Jira add-ons, associated plug-ins and extension  

- JIRA reporting and report filters  

- Experience in a technical customer support role