Sr. Jira Admin

Title: Sr Jira Admins

Location: 26^th Street & Madison Ave (11Madison Ave / Midtown NYC)

Work remote? No

Travel required?  No

Duration: 1yr +

Work Status: Citizens, s, H1B holders.

Start: ASAP

Skills Needed:

·       MUST HAVE a minimum 9 years of experience working for US Companies in the US.

·       MUST HAVE 4+ years of ''Recent'' experience working in a commercial ‘Bank or Large Brokerage’ environment.

• Must have ''Atlassian Certification'' in JIRA Project Administration. This is a Must have!!! They don''t want candidates who have learned Jira on the Fly.
• 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 that will provide much-needed support to the 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. The ways we use JIRA happen to be new and interesting, too; there is room to be creative in this role.