Senior Application Atlassian Developer/Engineer/Architect

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 
 

Plans, designs and supports migrations of Jira and Confluence to Atlassian Cloud   
Provides Identity Management Expertise, including planning and maintenance of various identity systems and services (multi-factor, SSO) and authorization concepts. 
Applies software updates and patches to Jira, Confluence, WebSphere. 
Integrates Jira with other tools and systems 
Provides technical mentorship, guidance, and expertise to a small team of developers 
Builds, enhances and maintains custom solutions in Jira, Java-based and Azure .NET custom web-applications 
Modernizes applications written in older technologies for new platforms  
Performs requirements analysis and writes professional, detailed technical documentation  
Diagnoses, troubleshoots and solves technical issues with existing applications 
Provides clear communication with clients, team members and customers on video, phone and in person 
Captures clear, concise and accurate technical documentation  
Special Skills/Knowledge: 
 

Identity and Access Management expert 
Migration of Jira and Confluence to Atlassian Cloud 
Agile Scrum with JIRA, general JIRA Application Administration 
Azure App Service, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure DevOps 
Ability to coordinate and lead development activities among team members  
SQL - particularly Stored Procedures 
Business Analysis 
Work closely to communicate with stakeholders, team members and customers. 
Hands-on Experience with: 
 

Jira, Confluence Data Center 
Atlassian Cloud services 
Java, HTML, JavaScript, JQL 
Eclipse, Atlassian Custom Developer Tools, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio 
Strong, independent application development skills that contribute significantly to analysis, prototype and design and troubleshooting activities 
Ability to analyze existing architectures in variety of platforms 
Project leadership roles, project management, mentors team members 
Qualifications: 
A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field or relevant experience. 
US Citizen 
Atlassian Skills: 
Jira Data Center Engineering: 
Ability to install/update highly customized Jira data center instances regularly on Windows Servers. 
Understanding of authentication options for Jira such as SAML and Windows authentication and the ability to implement and maintain the different options. 
Understanding, implementing and maintaining SSL, HSTS and other security options as part of Jira configuration. 
The ability to determine the optimal server size and configuration for Jira. 
The ability to investigate Jira Data center and host server errors and issues and troubleshoot the issues quickly.  
The ability to install, configure and update custom and third-party Jira Plugins. 
Jira Data Center custom development: 
The ability to maintain and update customize Jira source code modifications with each Jira version update. 
The ability to maintain and update custom Jira plugins with each Jira version update. 
The ability to understand, maintain and develop injected JavaScript to modify the Jira UI and provide cross-field validation to meet the requirements of customers and Jira version updates. 
Have a complete understanding of the Jira database schema to support Jira customizations and custom Jira reports. 
Create a plan and execute the plan for each major upgrade of Jira. 
Create/update dev and staging environments including setting up the Atlassian SDK, the latest Jira source code, installing Eclipse, setting up Eclipse projects for each customization and hooking the code into Git repos in Azure DevOps. 
Jira Data Center administration: 
Act as a system administrator for Jira Data Center. 
Provide expertise and assistance to other Jira administrators as needed. 
Be proficient with building complex projects in Jira 
Have a complete understanding with project workflows, issue types, custom fields, permissions, etc. 
Work on assigned Help Desk tickets directly with our customers or assist team members with their Jira related tickets to resolve project related issues and errors in Jira. 
Jira Cloud migration: 
Understand the architectural differences between Jira Data Center and Cloud editions. 
Understand the benefits and limitations of Jira Cloud as compared to Data Center. 
Understand the different Jira Cloud offerings including the Atlassian Federal Cloud (FedRAMP). 
Ability to build custom apps for Jira Cloud using Atlassian Forge with Visual Studio Code connected to Git repos in Azure DevOps. 
Review all customizations to Jira Data Center and provide alternatives to customizations incompatible with Atlassian Cloud, with compatible alternatives that meet customer expectations. 
Ability to construct a plan with options to migrate Jira data center instances to the Atlassian Cloud. 
Ability to clean-up orphan data in the Jira databases prior to moving to the Atlassian Cloud. 
Ability to remove and/or archive no longer used Jira Projects prior to moving to the Atlassian Cloud.  
Ability to remove customizations to Jira source code and database schema modifications in order to migrate the customized Jira Data Center instances to the Atlassian Jira Cloud. 
Ability to build, configure and migrate existing projects to the Atlassian Jira Cloud. 
Ability to build and configure new Spaces in the Atlassian Jira Cloud. 
Confluence Data Center engineering: 
Ability to install/update Confluence Data Center instances regularly on Windows Servers. 
Understand the options for Confluence SAML authentication and the ability to implement and maintain the different options. 
Understanding, implementing and maintaining SSL, HSTS and other security options as part of Confluence configuration. 
The ability to determine the optimal server size and configuration for Jira. 
The ability to investigate Confluence Data Center and host server errors and issues and troubleshoot the issues quickly 
Confluence Data Center administration: 
Act as a system administrator for Confluence. 
Provide expertise and assistance to other Confluence administrators as needed. 
Work on assigned Help Desk tickets directly with our customers or assist team members with their Confluence-related tickets to resolve issues and errors in Confluence. 
Confluence Cloud: 
Ability to construct a plan with options to migrate Confluence Data Center instances to the Atlassian Cloud. 
Ability to configure Confluence Cloud instances and migrate Confluence Data Center instances to the Atlassian Cloud. 
General Atlassian skills: 
Understanding Jira and plugin/app licensing for both Data Center and Cloud and make recommendations for the most cost-effective options. 
Understanding Confluence and plugin/app licensing for both Data Center and Cloud and make recommendations for the most cost-effective options. 
Evaluate CVE alerts for Atlassian products and components to see if they are applicable to Data Center instances and provide options and timelines for remediation. 
 Identity and Access Management Skills: 
 

Design secure customer access pathways and server integration architectures. 
Manage user identities and rights across numerous platforms and applications. 
Configure and manage directory services such as Active Directory and LDAP, and their integration with IAM solutions, including supporting Active Directory group structures and permissions. 
Manage the full identity lifecycle, including provisioning, deprovisioning, role-based access controls, authentication mechanisms, and access reviews. 
Troubleshoot and resolve IAM issues related to workflows, user permissions, authentication, and system performance. 
Analyst Skills: 
Work with the business analyst and customers to assist with defining requirements for new or enhancements to existing applications and reports. 
Develop project plans, timelines and level of effort for implementing the customer requirements. 
Layout a technical structure to implement new applications or enhancements. 
Act as the lead developer and assist other developers with implementing new applications or enhancements. 
Test and validate the work of other developers prior to submission for review by the business analyst and customer. 
 
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