Are you a Senior System Engineer who has experience with DevOps and Jira administration? Do you want to work on a team with the largest number instances of Jira/ Confluence in the whole world? If so, Apex Systems has the perfect position for you.
If interested please email your resume to crynn@apexsystems.com.
Position: Sr Systems Engineer
Length: Long term contract (1+ year)
Location: Remote
Rate: Dependent on experience
The Collaboration Tools Engineering Team provides a platform for our client's teams to plan, track and collaborate for executives to make decisions about resourcing and product roadmaps on a large scale. They leverage industry-standard tools like Jira and Confluence, and build their own custom web tools, data and reporting to empower management decision-making.
As a Sr Systems Engineering focused on Collaboration Tools, you’ll have the opportunity to:
Provide the world's best collaboration tool experience through customized Jira and Confluence Data Center instances Lead regular upgrades of Jira and Confluence Solve unique technical challenges with one of the largest scale instances of Atlassian tools Research and implement security vulnerability protections, working with Information Security teams Design integrations between Jira, Confluence, other 3rd party tools and custom applications through API or other solutions Skillsets required:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or electrical engineering with > 8 years of experience Usage of Jira and Confluence Management of web application(s) from a system build or operational support perspective Cloud concepts: Infrastructure as code, Azure, Openstack, or other cloud hosting and deployment solutions Understanding of database (Oracle, MS SQL), network, firewall, block storage mount concepts - ability to direct and work with those areas for end to end app solution Ability to manage systems projects end to end, set own schedule and track, build and implement repeatable test plans HA/DR design and implementation Coordinate activities with Infrastructure and Platform Teams for environment setup, configuration, and maintenance Manage and lead others within team as well as cross-functional resources Infrastructure design for and concepts for web applications Ability to work closely with Jira and Confluence Product owners and other systems engineers on the team Participate in an on-call rotation, triaging application incidents and customer escalations Application monitoring and troubleshooting of Java applications Experience with monitoring tools to monitor application performance Systems engineering background and Linux administration with an emphasis on DevOps practices Preferred skills:
Jira or Confluence administration Maintenance, Operational troubleshooting and tuning for Jira or Confluence health (system and application level) Automated performance testing Experience with monitoring tools for systems, infrastructure and applications Scripting (shell, groovy, or other scripting languages) Understanding of Active Directory concepts Vulnerability remediation Experience with SQL Ability to influence and follow up on requests for cross-functional teams