Job#: 3030839 Job Description: Atlassian Cloud Specialist
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (Onsite)Employment Type: ContractContract Duration: 12 MonthsRole Overview
The Atlassian Cloud Specialist is a senior, hands-on technical role responsible for planning, executing, and supporting large-scale migrations from Atlassian Data Center to Atlassian Cloud. This role requires expertise in Jira and Confluence Data Center architectures, Atlassian Cloud capabilities, and migration tooling. The specialist will bridge delivery and solution architecture, owning detailed technical execution while contributing to migration strategy and platform standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end migrations from Jira and Confluence Data Center to Atlassian Cloud, including assessment, planning, execution, validation, and stabilization.
- Perform pre-migration discovery and analysis of Data Center environments, including projects, workflows, apps, integrations, and performance considerations.
- Design migration strategies aligned to business risk, regulatory requirements, and scale constraints.
- Execute migrations using Atlassian-supported tooling like the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant and Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant.
- Identify and remediate app compatibility gaps, including replacement or refactoring of Data Center-only plugins.
- Manage data integrity, validation, and reconciliation post-migration.
- Administer Jira Software and Confluence in both Data Center and Cloud environments during transition phases.
- Design and maintain complex Jira workflows, schemes, automation, dashboards, and advanced JQL filters.
- Re-engineer integrations between Atlassian tools and CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and other enterprise platforms for Cloud compatibility.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to platform teams and application owners during migration.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Experience: 5-8+ years of hands-on experience administering Atlassian Jira and Confluence Data Center platforms. Proven, hands-on experience leading Data Center to Cloud migrations for Jira and/or Confluence is required.
Technical Skills: Expert-level knowledge of Jira workflows, schemes, permissions, automation, advanced JQL, dashboards, and reporting. Strong troubleshooting skills across applications and integrations. Experience with cloud implementation, including data on the cloud and integration with the cloud.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a solution architect.
- Experience handling plugin rationalization and Cloud app replacement strategies.
- Scripting and automation experience using Groovy, ScriptRunner, or Jira Automation.
- Experience supporting high-availability, multi-node Data Center environments.
- Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, and DevOps operating models.
Compensation & Benefits
The pay rate for this position is between $65.00 and $70.24 per hour. A comprehensive benefits package is available to eligible employees.
This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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