SC Cleared Atlassian Specialist Role (with DevOps experience)

Atlassian Specialist Role (with DevOps experience)
Clearance required: BPSS + SC submission to Home Office (BPSS to activate work order)
Mandated Umbrella PAYE

We are heading up a recruitment drive for a global consultancy that require a SC Cleared Atlassian Specialist Role to join them on a major government project that's based in London.

Atlassian Specialist Role (with DevOps experience)

We're looking for an Atlassian expert to join Capgemini on a Government Department team focused on development and support of the Atlassian toolset. The person will be responsible for managing the Atlassian toolset used by the programme.

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.

We are also at the point in the lifecyle of the programme where we have a transitioned most of the business onto a large and complex AWS environment. As such the candidate should also be prepared to support the platform (for Collaborative Tooling) on an on-call basis.

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)
Working alongside other technical and non-technical business functions eg commercial

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.