Jira Admin

Cairo
- 5 years Experience
- R&D Department

**About the job**:
**Requirements and responsibilities**

**Job Description**:
**Job Summary**: Provides support for Cubic's JIRA systems used in UMB. Provides technical direction to the development team. This position typically works under general supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

**Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Work closely with Engineering team to help engineering teams adopt agile/SCRUM principles and consolidate tools used
- Integrate core engineering tools (Primavera P6, JIRA, Aha, Slack, BitBucket, Confluence, TestRail, SD Elements)
- Consolidate and upgrade existing JIRA instances to standardize deployment of Atlassian tools to meet business requirements Manage ~10,000 user license for Jira and configured projects, workflows, permissions, notifications, and other schemes to satisfy requirements while following best practices.
- Evaluates and implements third-party plugins and add-ons.
- Build advanced scripts, rollups and filters for use with plugins such as, but not limited to, Adaptivist ScriptRunner and JCMF.
- Ability to troubleshoot Java VM with respect to Atlassian products.
- Proven ability to develop software.
- Core understanding of Atlassian products, how they are used and managed.
- Build dashboards and custom filters with JQL for management visibility.
- Manages portfolio for Jira plugin administration across multiple programs.
- Creates necessary technical and functional documentation.
- Conducts and participates in in-house design reviews.
- Contributes technical direction to the development group.
- Participates in creation of global IT development processes and policies.
- Responsible for maintaining project source control and adhering to change control processes.
- Provides accurate time estimates for development tasks and projects.
- Performs problem analysis and system design utilizing a solid understanding of business system functions and requirements.
- Coordinates support cases with third party vendors.
- Prepares test data and test plans. Tests and debugs solutions.
- May provide technical assistance to personnel in other IT classifications.

**Minimum Job Requirements**:

- Four-year college degree, or equivalent, in a technical field, plus relevant years of programming experience including three years of Java programming.
- Expertise in Atlassian tool suite; Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Crowd, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Requires experience in Relational Database Design and SQL.
- Requires experience using operating system and database functions, languages and utilities.
- Understanding of business functions and processes required.
- Understands and appreciates good User Interface Design.
- Proficient written and verbal communications skills required.
- Ability to analyze and solve technical problems.
- Experience and enthusiasm for working with and building a great team.
- Self-motivated to drive solutions