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Atlassian Application Support Engineer (Contract)
Location: London Country: UK Rate: £700 - 750 per day
Role: Atlassian Application Support Engineer
Contract Length: 6 months initially
Location: London or Glasgow (Hybrid)
IR35: Inside
Rate: £750/day
Security Clearance: Minimum of SC
The Role:
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 our Atlassian tools supporting our digital service.
Your role will be supporting, maintaining, and developing our 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
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
To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources
Disability Confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Armed Forces Covenant
CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify for the above, please notify us.
We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
Posted Date: 28 Mar 2024
Reference: JS1JP00076689
Employment Business: Aspect Resources
Contact: Daniel Lowe