Atlassian Jira Development Administrator

Company: The Judge Group
Location: Deerfield
Posted on: September 24, 2022

Job Description:

Location: Bannockburn, IL Description: Our client is currently seeking a Atlassian Jira Development Administrator 5 months RemoteJob Description: You will be an integral part of the Jira Platform team and will be expected to engage with other team members, providing insight, guidance, and thought leadership. Main function will be to provide system admin support for Atlassian tools such as (Jira, Confluence) & drive increased user adoption through continuous improvements within the toolset. Candidate will possess automation, script development, reporting skills and champion technology/tools that improve processes and provide efficiency. This job will have the following responsibilities:

• 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. Qualifications & Requirements:
  • 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 Contact: This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at

Keywords: The Judge Group, Arlington Heights , Atlassian Jira Development Administrator, Other , Deerfield, Illinois