Senior Platform Engineer (Atlassian Stack, Linux and Automation) for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Henegouwen; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

WLG in Mons, Belgium is seeking a senior engineer to own and manage the Atlassian collaboration platform for a multinational defence security centre. You will administer Jira Data Center and Confluence Data Center, integrate with the wider MS SharePoint ecosystem, and ensure security and resilience.

You will lead deployments, patching, migrations, and customisations while collaborating with security teams and business users.

Qualifications

• Experience administering Jira Data Center or Confluence Data Center (5+ years).
• Linux system administration.
• Scripting for automation: Bash and Python.
• Strong Java, Groovy, and ScriptRunner knowledge.
• Strong networking and security practice.
• Experience with migrations in Atlassian stack.
• Experience with IT service management.
• Ownership: able to finish what you start.
• Excellent information management and clear technical communication.
• Professional English.

Responsabilités

• Deploying, installing and configuring Jira Software Data Center and Confluence Data Center.
• Integrating plugins, add-ons and integrations to meet needs.
• Guarding confidentiality and data integrity.
• Proactive maintenance: users, access control, permissions.
• Handling change requests: releases, security patches, features.
• Vendor support for bugs and feature requests.
• Monitoring performance, troubleshooting, tuning for security and reliability.
• Running backups and disaster recovery testing.
• Applying security patches and audits.
• Supporting users and migrating data; customizing workflows and dashboards.

Connaissances

Five+ years Jira Data Center Admin

Linux system administration

Scripting for automation (Bash, Python

Java

Groovy

ScriptRunner

Networking & security

IT service management

Ownership & delivery

Professional English

Outils

Jira Data Center

Confluence Data Center

Linux

Bash

Python

Java

Groovy

ScriptRunner

Ansible

SharePoint

Atlassian stack

Description du poste

Everybody uses Jira. Almost nobody runs it properly at this scale, under these security rules.

You would be the senior engineer behind the collaboration platform of a multinational defence security centre in Mons, Belgium - administering the Atlassian estate, integrating it with everything around it, and keeping it secure.

What You Would Be Doing

• Deploying, installing and configuring Jira Software Data Center, Confluence Data Center and the plugins around them, to best practice and to the customer's own security direction
• Adding the plugins, add-ons and integrations the business actually needs
• Guarding the confidentiality and integrity of what sits in there
• Proactive maintenance and administration - users, access control, permissions - through the service management tool
• Raising, chasing and implementing change requests: new releases, security patches, user features ready for production
• Dealing with vendor support for bugs and feature requests
• Monitoring performance, troubleshooting, and tuning for security, reliability and resilience
• Running backups with the backup team, and testing and reporting on disaster recovery
• Applying security patches and upgrades promptly, and auditing so that need-to-know actually holds
• Supporting users, migrating data in and out, and customising workflows, forms and dashboards to how teams really work
• Integrating with the wider estate, including the Microsoft product suite and SharePoint
• Writing the documentation, and keeping an eye on where the products are heading

What you would bring

• At least five years administering Jira Data Center or Confluence Data Center
• System administration in Linux environments
• Scripting for automation - Bash, Python
• Excellent Java, Groovy and ScriptRunner
• A strong grounding in networking and security practice
• Migrations into or out of the Atlassian stackWorking within IT service management
• Ownership: the wish to finish what you start
• Excellent information management, and communication that makes technical detail land
• Professional English

Nice to have

• An Atlassian product certification
• A software development background, and Ansible
• Work for or with a military or governmental organisation

Why this one is worth a look

It is platform ownership, not ticket triage - the estate is yours to design, secure and automate.