Senior JIRA Admin

Our direct client, a leading financial firm based off of the New York City metropolitan region is looking for an experience JIRA Admin to join their team.

Skills Needed:

• MUST HAVE a minimum 6 years of experience working for US Companies in the US.
• MUST HAVE 2+ years of ‘Recent’ experience working in a commercial ‘Bank or Large Brokerage’ environment.
• Must have ‘Atlassian Certification’ in JIRA Project. Administration. This is a Must have!!! They don’t want candidates who have learned Jira on the Fly.
• Must have 4 years of Recent experience working as a JIRA Admin.
• Must have experience on the Administrator/Power User level of Atlassian products (specifically JIRA) in a mid-to-large-sized company.
• Must have experience with Design, configure, manage, and support of Atlassian tools, primarily JIRA
• Must have experience troubleshooting the Atlassian software stack or LAMP.
• Experience designing and supporting custom JIRA workflows, fields, dashboards, and reports.
• Experience with business users to evaluate JIRA and Confluence plug-ins, determine licensing needs, and perform testing, installation and configuration of the plug-ins.
• Experience customizing JIRA.
• Excellent customer service and teamwork skills
• Experience with JIRA workflows, permissions schemes, notification schemes, screen schemes, etc.
• Experience with cloud platforms, environments, and APIs
• Experience with Agile Methodologies (SCRUM, Kanban)
• Experience with Apache httpd and Tomcat
• Experience with at least one of the following languages: Java, JavaScript, or Python
• Previous interaction with Git, Subversion, etc.
• Jenkins, Hudson, Puppet, or other build automation experience
• Exerience with software issue tracking
• Must have Tech support/customer service experience.
• Excellent communication skills