Application Developer Senior 102086

Sr. Application Developer

Location:

Germantown, MD, Lemont, IL, and Oak Ridge, TN

Required Clearance:

Public Trust

ManpowerGroup Public Sector (MGPS) provides Skilled Experts and Leading-Edge Solutions to Support Our Nation's Most Critical Intelligence, Defense and Civilian Missions. MGPS specializes in solving our clients' diverse linguistic, technical and data management challenges created by the dramatic rise in the volume, variety and complexity of open source data. We harness machine learning, artificial intelligence and the latest data acquisition and mining tools, paired with expert human skills to provide customized solutions for every customer.

Senior Applications Developer/Engineer, highly proficient in leading and independently maintaining, developing, testing and delivering high quality, enterprise-wide solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Plans, designs and supports migrations of Jira and Confluence to Atlassian Cloud
  
• Provides Identity Management Expertise, including planning and maintenance of various identity systems and services (multi-factor, SSO) and authorization concepts.
  
• Applies software updates and patches to Jira, Confluence, WebSp.
  
• Integrates Jira with other tools and systems
  
• Provides technical mentorship, guidance, and expertise to a small team of developers
  
• Builds, enhances and maintains custom solutions in Jira, Java-based and Azure .NET custom web-applications
  
• Modernizes applications written in older technologies for new platforms
  
• Performs requirements analysis and writes professional, detailed technical documentation
  
• Diagnoses, troubleshoots and solves technical issues with existing applications
  
• Provides clear communication with clients, team members and customers on video, phone and in person
  
• Captures clear, concise and accurate technical documentation
  

Special Skills/Knowledge:

• Identity and Access Management expert
  
• Migration of Jira and Confluence to Atlassian Cloud
  
• Agile Scrum with JIRA, general JIRA Application Administration
  
• Azure App Service, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure DevOps
  
• Ability to coordinate and lead development activities among team members
  
• SQL - particularly Stored Procedures
  
• Business Analysis
  
• Work closely to communicate with stakeholders, team members and customers.

Required Skills:

• 10 Years+ experience:
• Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining custom Jira solutions.
• Software development, particularly with Java, JavaScript.
• Relational databases (SQL and SQL Managed Instance).
• Experience with version control systems, frameworks and tools relevant to application development.
• Identity and Access Management implementation and management.
• Atlassian Cloud and Migrating Jira and Confluence to Atlassian Cloud.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are a must.
• Jira, Confluence Data Center
• Atlassian Cloud services
• Java, HTML, JavaScript, JQL
• Eclipse, Atlassian Custom Developer Tools, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio.
• Strong, independent application development skills that contribute significantly to analysis, prototype and design and troubleshooting activities.
• Ability to analyze existing architectures in variety of platforms.
• Project leadership roles, project management, mentors team members.

Atlassian Skills:

Jira Data Center Engineering:

• Ability to install/update highly customized Jira data center instances regularly on Windows Servers.
• Understanding of authentication options for Jira such as SAML and Windows authentication and the ability to implement and maintain the different options.
• Understanding, implementing and maintaining SSL, HSTS and other security options as part of Jira configuration.
• The ability to determine the optimal server size and configuration for Jira.
• The ability to investigate Jira Data center and host server errors and issues and troubleshoot the issues quickly.
• The ability to install, configure and update custom and third-party Jira Plugins.

Jira Data Center custom development:

• The ability to maintain and update customize Jira source code modifications with each Jira version update.
• The ability to maintain and update custom Jira plugins with each Jira version update.
• The ability to understand, maintain and develop injected JavaScript to modify the Jira UI and provide cross-field validation to meet the requirements of customers and Jira version updates.
• Have a complete understanding of the Jira database schema to support Jira customizations and custom Jira reports.
• Create a plan and execute the plan for each major upgrade of Jira.
• Create/update dev and staging environments including setting up the Atlassian SDK, the latest Jira source code, installing Eclipse, setting up Eclipse projects for each customization and hooking the code into Git repos in Azure DevOps.

Jira Data Center administration:

• Act as a system administrator for Jira Data Center.
• Provide expertise and assistance to other Jira administrators as needed.
• Be proficient with building complex projects in Jira
• Have a complete understanding with project workflows, issue types, custom fields, permissions, etc.
• Work on assigned Help Desk tickets directly with our customers or assist team members with their Jira related tickets to resolve project related issues and errors in Jira.

Jira Cloud migration:

• Understand the architectural differences between Jira Data Center and Cloud editions.
• Understand the benefits and limitations of Jira Cloud as compared to Data Center.
• Understand the different Jira Cloud offerings including the Atlassian Federal Cloud (FedRAMP).
• Ability to build custom apps for Jira Cloud using Atlassian Forge with Visual Studio Code connected to Git repos in Azure DevOps.
• Review all customizations to Jira Data Center and provide alternatives to customizations incompatible with Atlassian Cloud, with compatible alternatives that meet customer expectations.
• Ability to construct a plan with options to migrate Jira data center instances to the Atlassian Cloud.
• Ability to clean-up orphan data in the Jira databases prior to moving to the Atlassian Cloud.
• Ability to remove and/or archive no longer used Jira Projects prior to moving to the Atlassian Cloud.
• Ability to remove customizations to Jira source co.

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