Jira Admin

• MUST HAVE a minimum 6 years of experience working for American Companies
• MUST HAVE 2+ years of 'Recent' experience working in a commercial ‘Bank or Large Brokerage’ environment.
• Must have uptodate / recent 'Atlassian Certification' in JIRA Project Administration. This is a Must have!!!
• Must have 4 years of Recent experience working as a JIRA Admin.
• Must have experience on the Administrator/Power User level of Atlassian products (specifically JIRA) in a mid-to-large-sized company.
• Must have experience with Design, configure, manage, and support of Atlassian tools, primarily JIRA
• Must have experience troubleshooting the Atlassian software stack or LAMP.
• Experience designing and supporting custom JIRA workflows, fields, dashboards, and reports.
• Experience with business users to evaluate JIRA and Confluence plug-ins, determine licensing needs, and perform testing, installation and configuration of the plug-ins.
• Experience customizing JIRA.
• Excellent customer service and teamwork skills
• Experience with JIRA workflows, permissions schemes, notification schemes, screen schemes, etc.
• Experience with cloud platforms, environments, and APIs
• Experience with Agile Methodologies (SCRUM, Kanban)
• Experience with Apache httpd and Tomcat
• Experience with at least one of the following languages: Java, JavaScript, or Python
• Previous interaction with Git, Subversion, etc.
• Jenkins, Hudson, Puppet, or other build automation experience
• Exerience with software issue tracking
• Must have Tech support/customer service experience.
• Excellent communication skills

The Job:

• The consultants hired will be part of a team at Client that will provide much-needed support to our IT department by acting as the Certified JIRA whisperer.
• Many different departments here are moving to and using JIRA in some way or another.
• The consultant will work with them to ensure it continues to go smoothly.
• Collaborate on building projects and workflows for all kinds of uses.
• Client is currently in a period of immense change – and JIRA happens to be a critical facet.
• The ways we use JIRA happen to be new and interesting, too; there is room to be creative in this role