WA Consultants is currently recruiting for a Jira/Confluence Specialist for an initial 12-month contract. 

The successful applicant with be a specialist with Jira/Confluence and will be responsible for rationalising our clients Atlassian installations for a large digital programme. 

As an experienced Jira/Confluence administrator you will lead, design and perform the migration, in addition to providing ongoing business-driven enhancement and administration of Jira and Confluence.

Key responsibilities:

• New, bespoke Jira projects to support the business needs of teams within Working Age Services
• Integration with Service Now to enable strategic incident management approach
• Performance tuning

Our client is looking for expert-level knowledge and deep experience in:

• Jira and Confluence
• Atlassian plugins (including writing groovy for script runner)
• Safely migrating Jira and Confluence projects/spaces and users to a new installation
• Co-designing effective Jira workflows/schemes with delivery leaders
• Designing and running an administration function fit for regular requests for new users, new spaces, customised Jira workflows/schemes for projects etc
• Reviewing and improving security groups and roles to improve ease of management
• Ensuring effective communication between stakeholders for the design and transition to the single installation
• Performing upgrades with communication to affected end users
• Optimising and improving Jira/Confluence performance
• Working at a good pace
• It would also be very useful (but not essential) if you have previously worked in an agile environment, and have experience of creating and managing infrastructure solutions in AWS

Please note, this role has been deemed by our client to fall inside of IR35. For further information, please contact Alexander Wilson.