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Position: Jira Administration

Location: Tempe,AZ (local profile first preference)

Client : State of Arizona

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 while working in a JIRA 6.x & 7.x environment.
• 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 multiple responsibilities with tight deadlines.
• Perform basic Linux and Windows Server administration tasks.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science or related discipline; or Master's degree.
• 4+ years' experience as JIRA Administrator with experience customizing JIRA projects with various schemes, complex workflows, screen schemes, permission schemes, and notification schemes required.
• Minimum of 3-5 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 write custom JQL (Jira Query Language), a plus.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Position involves some interfacing with customers.