Systems Administrator - Atlassian/Jira at Horizontal Talent in Boston, Massachusetts

Job Description:

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Description :

• As Atlassian System and Application Administrator you will be responsible for the suite of applications the OU uses to empower the Software group and supporting organizations.
• This suite of tools power our DevOps CI/CD pipeline, enables our SDLC and serves as the foundation for Project Management, Code repository, Information Wiki, Artifact Storage, etc.
• This specifically entails Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, Bamboo, FishEye/Crucible as well as some non-Atlassian applications like Artifactory and Coverity.
• Duties will include both System and Application level administration.
• Stays up-to-date on industry best practices and makes suggestions and proposals to expand and improve current implementation.





Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience with installation, upgrade, and administration of self-hosted Atlassian suite that includes Jira, Confluence, BitBucket/Stash, Fisheye/Crucible as well as complementary CI/CD tools, namely Artifactory and Coverity.
• Vendor interactions - quotes & purchasing, license administration, support, being the point-of-contact between the business and the vendor and advocating for the needs of the user in a value driven manner with the vendor.
• Managing application plugins - research, installation, config, purchasing & renewal, intake requests from users and comparing needed functionality from request to plugins or capabilities already available in the tool.
• Experience with user management of medium-sized user base (~2000) which includes new user additions, group management, user permissions, user deactivation, permissions reviews, and communicating with the user base
• Experience building, managing, and enforcing standards and best practices
• Ability to quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues with JIRA, BitBucket/Stash, Bamboo, Artifactory running on RHEL based infrastruture.
• Being able to perform System Administration level functions that vary from nginx / reverse proxy configuration, tomcat config, SSL certificate management, log rotation / use of log4j, LDAP config, SSH, VM / Server performance monitoring and right-sizing, disk management, etc.
• Responsible for Application upgrades on hosts
• Knowledge of IT services and standard processes for agile development & tool management
• Will need to work independently with minimal direction
• Strong Change Management capabilities to challenge the status quo and drive transformational change to improve business performance and productivity.
• Create documentation and SOP's for common application and system administration functions