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 , 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