Jira/Confluence Administrator/Developer

Transforming the Future with the Convergence of Simulation and Data

JIRA/Confluence Administrator/Developer - Enterprise Application Developer

Do you like a challenge, are you a complex thinker who likes to solve problems? If so, then you might be the new Altairian we are searching for. At Altair, your curiosity matters. We pride ourselves on a business culture that enables open, creative thinking, and we deeply value our employees and their contributions towards our clients' success, as well as our own.

Job Summary:

Altair is seeking a motivated JIRA Administrator/Developer to join our Enterprise Application Development team. This group is responsible for developing and implementing business applications for Altair worldwide, including internal and external facing applications supporting Software Development, Customer Support, Financials, Human Resources, Project Management, Sales/Licensing and other functions. Enterprise Application Development is the pillar of Altair’s design, development and implementation process and provides engineers and developers with a high efficiency system to develop, maintain and drive product innovation. The successful candidate will be able to work independently as well as part of a distributed team located in the US, India, and Europe.

What You Will Do:

• Develop, maintain, and manage projects, boards, workflows, custom fields, screen schemes, tasks/issues, permissions, and users including setting permissions and maintaining security for Jira projects and Confluence spaces
• Aid in development of JIRA add-ons and web application for creating features that are not innately available in JIRA
• Management of the Jira / Confluence environment including maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrading, and maintaining cybersecurity compliance
• Work with various teams to support hardware and software maintenance
• Development of applications and tools to enhance products using Java, python, Perl, php, Groovy
• Perform basic JIRA/Confluence administration duties - user creation, screen design, and workflow implementation as requests come from JIRA users
• Compose guides and processes in Confluence for documentation purposes
• Develop scripts for automation, workflow and systems enhancement purposes
• Track project and assignment information (work estimates, requirement, time logged, etc.) in JIRA
• Migration of JIRA/Confluence systems from on-premises environment to Atlassian Cloud
• Leverage database assets to maximize value to the customer with customizations/add-ons
• Utilize third party data visualization tools to represent Corporate Systems data for analytic predictions
• Design efficient data structures and algorithms to support development enhancements to corporate systems

What You Will Need:

• Knowledge of navigating within Linux environment and VI editing skills
• Experience in following the Agile development life cycle
• Well-developed time management and organizational skills
• Prior experience migrating on-premise JIRA/Confluence systems to the Atlassian Cloud
• Basic understanding of source control management - experience with Gitlab is desirable
• Experience with third party or developing custom API and Web Services
• Basic SQL/Database knowledge
• Good trouble-shooting and diagnostic skills
• Comfortable working with programming languages like Java, Groovy, Perl, JavaScript, PHP, and Python
• 3 to 5 years of experience working with JIRA/Confluence as developer and/or admin
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing technology environment

Basics:

• Ability to work as a single contributor as well as team player
• Good written and verbal communication skills(verbal/written) - the ability to articulate clearly and succinctly to a variety of audiences (PMs, Technical Specialists, Support, Developers, QA, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or equivalent
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Preferred:

• Experience working with JIRA in an Agile software development environment
• Experience with JSM module is preferred
• Experience working on JIRA/Confluence on-premise and in the Cloud
• Atlassian Certification in JIRA/Confluence
• A can succeed attitude and work ethic

Work How You Will Be Successful:

• Seek Technology and Business “Firsts”
• Embrace Diversity and Take Risks
• Envision the Future
• Communicate Honestly and Broadly

Why Work with Us:

Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.

Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI).

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation, and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration.

Ready to go? #ONLYFORWARD

At our core we are explorers; adventurers; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and uncharted waters, we dive in headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.

Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair's history demonstrates a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.