Deadline Date: Tuesday 24 January 2023
Requirement Title: Atlassian JIRA amp; Confluence Engineer
Location: Mons, BE
Full time on-site: Yes
NATO Grade: A/ 88
Total Scope of the request (hours): 600
Required Start Date: 21 February 2023
End Contract Date: 31 December 2023
Required Security Clearance: NATO Cosmic Top Secret
Duties and Role
The incumbent's role and duties are as below:
- Act as one of the Subject Matter Experts (SME) for all matters concerning JIRA, Confluence and their modules and integrations
- Participate in the operation, management, maintenance, support and monitoring of the multiple JIRA and Confluence instances hosted by the NCSC to ensure the NCSC can deliver its services.
- Lead the development of JIRA-based issues types, complex workflows, dashboards, reports,
- Lead the development of Confluence-based datastructures, templates, dashboards, reports,
- Actively contribute to the administrative and user documentation of the systems.
- Design, develop and integrate a solution for unidirectionally synchronising two JIRA instances over an airgap (two networks not interconnected physically).
- Design, develop and integrate a solution for unidirectionally synchronising two Confluence instances over an airgap.
- Handle the management of users and groups, authentication and authorization flows.
- Develop integrations between tools the NCSC uses and JIRA/Confluence to support automation.
- Develop JIRA/Confluence apps and plugins to support our functional needs.
- Work independently while taking initiatives and ownership of tasks and issues.
- Performs other duties as may be required.
Requirements
- NATO Cosmic Top Secret security clearance
- Prior experience managing and maintaining JIRA instances and datastructures.
- Excellent communications skills and reporting experience with capacity to communicate to different types of audience (senior executive, middle management, technical and non-technical).
- Extensive software development experience with Java, JSP, Javascript, CSS.
- Extensive software development experience with Python Extensive experience in developing software integrations through APIs.
- Extensive experience with the management of Linux servers (preferably RedHat).
- Extensive experience with SQL databases.
- Experience with Java Servlet and Tomcat Experience in interfacing with IT Service / Change Management.
- Extensive experience with troubleshooting of complex software and IT infrastructure issues; from the source code to the network and database layer.
- The need to take ownership of tasks and wish to accomplish them to the end.
Desirable
- Prior experience with the 'backbone issue sync" and "scriptrunner" JIRA apps
- Prior experience in developing JIRA/Confluence apps and the Atlassian SDK
- Prior experience working in the area of Cyber Security / Incident Response.
- Knowledge of SAML and AD FS technologies Experience with PowerShell scripting
- Hold a Graduate or University degree in Software development