Atlassian Platform Engineer with Security Clearance

Atlassian Platform Engineer
100% onsite
Clearance: Top Secret (will be processed for SCI and CI Poly after starting)
Location: Washington, DC The Work:
Join us as a Senior Enterprise Atlassian Engineer, supporting enterprise-level Jira and Confluence administration for a high-visibility national security mission. This hands-on role is critical to modernizing and scaling collaboration platforms across multi-enclave environments. You’ll partner with mission, security, IT, and operations teams to deliver resilient, secure, and high-performing Atlassian solutions that drive federal public safety and national security objectives. What You’ll Drive:
• Administer and scale Jira, Confluence, JSM, and Crowd for daily enterprise operations.
• Triage and resolve support tickets—from access requests to advanced configuration changes.
• Improve workflows, fields, dashboards, reports, templates, and permission models.
• Manage marketplace apps, including installs, upgrades, troubleshooting, and performance checks.
• Oversee access and identity via Crowd, Microsoft Entra ID, and SSO integrations.
• Run platform operations: upgrades, patches, deployments, backups, logging, and monitoring.
• Support compliance needs, including ATO documentation, audits, and configuration baselines. What You Bring (Required Qualifications):
• Active Top Secret clearance
• Minimum 5 years supporting enterprise IT platforms or collaboration ecosystems
• Handson experience administering enterprise Jira, Confluence, and Crowd with focus on workflow design, automations and plugin management
• Familiarity with Linux administration, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and FISMA/ATO compliance
• Strong written and verbal communication; excels in stakeholder engagement and cross‑team collaboration.
• Comfortable operating in fast paced, dynamic environments; able to prioritize and deliver under shifting mission needs.
• Familiarity with Agile/SAFe; able to configure tools to reflect best practice delivery models and ceremonies.
• Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC (5 days/week) Preferred / Bonus Skills:
• Experience in federal/high security or multi enclave environments.
• Experience integrating AI enabled capabilities (e.g., classifiers, intelligent routing) into enterprise collaboration platform.
• Willing to go through CI poly Education/Experience Requirement
• 4 Year Degree Information Technology or related field or Equivalent Experience
• 5+ years Experience