Atlassian Developer

Senior Atlassian DeveloperApex Systems McLean, Virginia, United States (Hybrid)Our top financial client is looking to add a Senior Atlassian Developer to their team! This position will start as a 6-month contract and can lead to direct hire.Duration: 6-month contract to hireLocation: Hybrid, McLean, Va. On-site Tues, Wed, and ThursOverview: In this role, you work with Atlassian, Jira, Bitbucket, and Groovy to maintain a large-scale Jira migration. In addition, this role will expand services and optimize custom functionalities for the migration of 4,000 employees to 7,000 employees.ResponsibilitiesExperienced in the development lifecycle of supporting and customizing Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) to meet the needs & demands of key enterprise stakeholders across the enterprise environment.Supported previous engagements with responsibilities to install, configure and maintain Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket), Atlassian plugins or 3rd party plugins, and external integrations with other IT tools/technologies.Experienced in understanding Atlassian Jira workflows, permission schemes, and notification schemes; configuring add-ons and modules to expand the capabilities of the Atlassian stack.Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) practices, familiarity with building CI/CD pipelines, and practicing Test Driven Development (TDD) for writing test case scenarios for automated testing.Experienced in Atlassian Jira Configuration Manager, knowledgeable with Identity & Access Management (IAM) integrations for Atlassian Authentication & Authorization with technologies such as; Active Directory, LDAP, Ping IdentityDemonstrated experience in working with both APIs and writing scripts with tooling such as; JQL within Atlassian products, bash, or Python. Has knowledge of Groovy scripting and logic.QualificationsBachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)5+ years of relevant work experience in Atlassian and Jira, GroovyExperienced and/or familiar with Code & Release Management tools (e.g., Git, Bitbucket, CI/CD, Helm charts, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Docker, JFrog Artifactory)Required Skills: This is a Hybrid role. Candidate will be required to be on-site Tues, Wed and Thurs every week Must have a minimum of 5 years experience with Atlassian and Jira prefers 7+ years Must haves: -Atlassian -Jira -Bit Bucket -Groovy Basic Qualification: This is a Hybrid role. Candidate will be required to be on-site Tues, Wed and Thurs every week Additional Skills: This is a Hybrid role.