Atlassian Administrator (Jira and Confluence Data Center) for NATO with security clearance

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

You would be the senior engineer behind the collaboration platform of a multinational defencesecurity centre in Mons, Belgium — administering the Atlassian estate, integrating it witheverything around it, and keeping it secure.

What you would be doing

Deploying, installing and configuring Jira Software Data Center, Confluence Data Center andthe 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 theservice management tool

Raising, chasing and implementing change requests: new releases, security patches, userfeatures ready for production

Dealing with vendor support for bugs and feature requests

Monitoring performance, troubleshooting, and tuning for security, reliability andresilience

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 actuallyholds

Supporting users, migrating data in and out, and customising workflows, forms and dashboardsto 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 stack

Working 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 andautomate.