JIRA Administrator

Leidos; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 72,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled JIRA Administrator to enhance their digital modernization efforts. This role involves managing JIRA and Confluence, performing system administration tasks, and improving project workflows. The successful candidate will collaborate with various teams to ensure optimal functionality and security of JIRA projects while also contributing to cloud migration and automation initiatives. If you have a strong background in Atlassian tools and are ready to tackle exciting challenges in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience in JIRA administration and Atlassian tools.
• Active DOD TS/SCI clearance required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Manage JIRA projects, workflows, permissions, and users.
• Analyze current functionality and document areas for improvement.

Skills

JIRA Administration

Atlassian Product Suite

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Agile Environment

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

Job description

Description

The Digital Modernization sector within Leidos is seeking a JIRA Administrator. To be successful in this role, the candidate should have experience with performing all areas of JIRA administration, including systems administration, application management, change control, risk management and validation and verification for multiple product baselines.

With the CESO program, the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) is looking to transform the existing Secure Web Services (SWS) environment, which provides secure information sharing to the community, into a more mature service offering to meet the DoD and intelligence communities. As part of this task order, Leidos will manage the commercial cloud migration and disestablishment of legacy systems, fully automate the continuous development & continuous integration environment, fourth estate consolidation, professionalize services – ITIL/DevSecOps based processes, improve the customer experience 1st call resolution, and achieve development of a service catalog for Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF) Model.

This position is in Arlington, VA with occasional/situational travel.

Primary Responsibilities

• Analyze, review, and document current functionality to determine potential areas of improvement.
• Manage user permissions for tools according to the needs of projects and teams.
• Perform application and system administration tasks, including data backups and scheduled jobs.
• Test new versions of the tools and plug-ins to ensure compatibility.
• Research and utilize industry standard methods and techniques.
• Maintain JIRA projects, workflows, permissions, and users to include adding external plug-ins and modifying JQL as needed.
• Improve JIRA security. Set access permissions for JIRA projects and Confluence spaces.
• Work with JIRA filters, reporting, dashboards, workflows, fields, and JIRA administration.
• Communicate and share knowledge with internal and external contacts at all levels.
• Manage Incident ticket data for reporting and data analytics.

Basic Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience; additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Candidate must possess an active DOD TS/SCI level security clearance, and be eligible to obtain and maintain a w/CI Poly.
• Within the last 3 years, a minimum of 1 year experience performing periodic system backups and developing/documenting standard operating procedures for these activities.
• Minimum of 3+ years hands-on experience working with the Atlassian product suite, with specific focus on JIRA as a Project/Application Administrator.
• Expert level Atlassian tool administration knowledge on JIRA and Confluence.
• Ability to construct custom dashboards using various filter types in JIRA, a must.
• Ability to construct Confluence pages and integrate JIRA projects with Confluence pages, a must.
• Experience in performing Atlassian installations, migrations, and plugin installation, a must.
• LDAP integration experience.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic agile environment.
• Must have strong work ethic with good time management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP).
• Ability to translate highly technical matters to a non-technical audience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to write custom JQL (Jira Query Language), a plus.
• Experience installing applications on VMs, monitoring performance, and tailing logs on Unix Systems Administration and Microsoft Windows Server, preferred.
• Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL Database administration skills are preferred.
• Prior experience with DISA and DISA’s support to mission partners.

Original Posting Date:

2025-02-05

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $72,150.00 - $130,425.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.