Atlassian Technical Engineer

Salary: £118,300 - 118,300 per year

Requirements:

• 35 years experience in Atlassian solution delivery or application engineering
• Atlassian technical migration accreditation or certifications
• Certified in administration of Jira and Confluence
• Strong API and scripting knowledge
• Understanding of Agile, Scrum, DevOps/CI/CD and ITIL
• Desirable: experience configuring workflows, custom fields and reporting dashboards with customers
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder engagement skills
• UK national
• BPSS clearance, with SC eligibility required

Responsibilities:

• We configure, maintain and optimise Atlassian tooling to meet organisational needs at scale
• We deliver hands-on Jira and Confluence upgrades, migrations and consolidations
• We perform technical assessments and health checks across Atlassian instances
• We administer Bitbucket and Bamboo alongside core Jira and Confluence products
• We configure Jira Service Management queues, SLAs and automation
• We support integration between Jira and other applications via APIs and scripting
• We configure and manage CI/CD automation tooling for upgrades and testing

Technologies:

• API
• Atlassian
• Bamboo
• BitBucket
• CI/CD
• Confluence
• DevOps
• Support
• ITIL
• JIRA

More:

We are a public sector organisation offering a 6-month contract with the possibility of extension, based in Telford with a requirement to be in the office 2 days per month. The role is inside IR35 with a rate of £455 per day. We are seeking an experienced Atlassian Technical Engineer to support our platform at scale, working across Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, and related automation and integration tooling.

last updated 32 week of 2026