JIRA Lead Administrator

Company: BAE Systems
Location: Arlington
Posted on: January 20, 2023

Job Description:

Job Description
BAE Systems is seeking a JIRA Lead Administrator to handle the following activities:
Install, configure and maintain Atlassian JIRA/Confluence

Migrate incidents and workflows from multiple existing tools to JIRA

Collaborate with quality assurance, technical teams, and management to implement systems features that enable Agile software delivery

Recommend and design standard and custom JIRA workflows

Install, manage and support various development tools, testing tools and monitoring tools

Plan, evaluate, deploy, operate and maintain tools to suit the expanding user-base

Provide training to technical and non-technical teams to use Atlassian tools

Investigate, troubleshoot and fix issues related to development, applications, application servers

Recommend and set up Atlassian Plugins

Adhere to industry best practices, processes, and metrics standards

Document standards, guidelines and standard operating procedures for admins/users of the system

Set access permissions for JIRA projects spaces.

Develop and maintain project plans and action item lists and conduct regular customer status meetings to keep projects and actions on track with dates and owners

Work with JIRA filters, reporting, dashboards, workflows, fields, and JIRA administration.

Experienced level Atlassian tool administration knowledge on JIRA.

Ability to construct custom dashboards using various filter types in JIRA.

In-depth knowledge and experience with day-to-day JIRA administration functionality

Ad-Hoc report creation and distribution

Required Education, Experience, & Skills
Bachelor's degree in related field.

Excellent verbal, written and customer service skills.

7-10 years of related experience

Manage multiple responsibilities with tight deadlines.

Ability to write custom JQL (Jira Query Language).

Perform basic Linux and Windows Server administration tasks.

MUST have experience with enterprise installation on an AWS platform

Experience with administering and developing software team solutions on Atlassian tools especially JIRA and Confluence

Experience designing content management and data taxonomies

Experience configuring JIRA modules and selecting useful add-ons

Excellent understanding of JIRA workflows, permission schemes, notification schemes, screens schemes, etc.

Demonstrated experience in writing scripts

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment

Must have experience with configuring plugins such as big bucket, Email issue, HTML for Confluence, Jira Misc Workflow Extensions, ScriptRunner for Jira.

Ability to work in multi-vendor environment supporting large number of users.

Deep understanding of Agile and DevSecOps practices and toolsets

Must have enterprise-level Agile and organizational change management experience

Demonstrated experience with Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)

USMS
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification or Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Certification preferred
JIRA Lead Administrator
87979BR
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