Job Description

GTRI seeks a full stack developer with Atlassian experience to configure, manage, and enhance Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket tools, including native functionality as well as researching, testing, and implementing plugins.

Candidate must be a US CITIZEN to be considered for this position.

Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) seeks a full stack developer with Atlassian experience to configure, manage, and enhance Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket tools, including native functionality as well as researching, testing, and implementing plugins. Knowledge of GitLab would also be beneficial. The developer will be responsible for understanding the current process, gathering requirements, investigating potential solutions, analyzing impact, communicating with stakeholders, and implementing solutions. This role provides challenging opportunities and ample room for critical thinking in building extensible solutions that meet the unique needs of our clients while scaling out to support the daily collaboration of the entire organization.  Ideal candidate is a full stack developer. Preferably with experience with Python and/or Java. Atlassian experience is nice, but not required. More emphasis on troubleshooting, scripting, and automation is strongly preferred. 

The position will be based out of Atlanta, Georgia. Local candidates are preferred, but fully remote is available.

Primary Responsibilities:  

•   Collaborate with customers, Business Analysts, developers, admins and cross-functional teams to collect 

    requirements and develop solutions to support the daily needs of a rapidly growing business.

•   Research, test, and implement plugins and scripts for Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.

•   Develop interfaces between external tooling and Jira/Confluence infrastructure.

•   Manage Jira workflows, screen schemes, permission schemes, and notification schemes.

•   Document requirements, solutions, as well as user and support reference guides.

•   Develop specifications and test plans associated with new features or modifications.

•   Provide communications link between users and technical groups.

•   Provide ongoing user support including troubleshooting and resolution of issues.

•   Perform other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements: 

• Programming experience with a willingness to learn.

• Knowledge and understanding of the software development cycle.

• Excellent problem solving skills and demonstration of critical thinking.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Basic query language experience (SQL or equivalent, JQL a bonus).

• Knowledge of Single Sign On protocols such as SAML, SAML2.

• Familiarity with Git and branching models or other source control repositories.

• Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Six to eight years of job related experience

Preferred Skills:

• Java, Groovy, Python, Javascript, and Bash scripting strongly preferred. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript a 

        plus.

• Experience in setting up and supporting Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket etc.). Ability to 

        automate and extend base Jira/Confluence functionality, including scripting.

• Design and develop customizations and plugins.

• Experience developing custom plugins using Java for Jira 7.x+ and Confluence 6.x+.

• Experience using/extending REST API.