Atlassian Jira Development Administrator

Location: Bannockburn, IL Description: Our client is currently seeking a Atlassian Jira Development Administrator 5 months

• Provide quality system admin support for Jira, Confluence, and associated plug-ins, integrations including metrics reporting.
• Manage upgrades, patches, availability and performance of Jira, along with installed Atlassian marketplace add-ons.
• Manage Jira projects, users, permissions, Jira screen schemes, notification schemes, custom fields, field configurations, workflows, workflow functions
• Manage global and project customization for large size Atlassian tools instance.
• Install and configure custom Jira add-ons to provide enhanced capabilities (e.g., Scriptrunner, Advanced Roadmaps, Great gadgets, Dynamic Forms. etc.)
• Develop automated scripts, post functions and triggers using Python, JAVA, Groovy, REST API Establish standards, best practices, and governance for managing Jira and Confluence.
• Good understanding of the implementation of the Scaled Agile (SAFe) framework.
• Develop and maintain technical and user-facing documentation and standard operating procedures and guides
• Provide technical support for user management, creating custom dashboards, projects, issues, queries, workflows, and reports.
• Write custom JQL (Jira Query Language) to construct custom dashboards, advanced filter, and reports, using various filter types in JIRA.
• Work with Atlassian support for the issues and resolving them in a timely manner without any interruption to the users.
• Maintain a healthy application environment by periodically reviewing and modifying configurations, permissions, workflows, dashboards, integrations, and logs.
• Provide recommendations to users and management on best practices and standardization in implementing projects and processes within Jira and the Atlassian suite.

• 4+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering or related experience
• Working knowledge of Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence, Crowd and Atlassian plug-in such as Scriptrunner for Jira, Automation for Jira
• Working knowledge and coding experience using Python/JAVA and REST API
• Process governance experience or strong automation workflow knowledge
• Experience with Agile methodology lifecycle