Atlassian Platform Engineer

AIS (Applied Information Sciences)•Alexandria, VA

5d•$100,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Software Engineer. As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Atlassian Platform Engineer. Join AIS 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.

Requirements

Active Top Secret clearance
Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC (5 days/week)
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 bestpractice delivery models and ceremonies.

Nice To Haves

Experience in federal/highsecurity or multienclave environments.
Experience integrating AIenabled capabilities (e.g., classifiers, intelligent routing) into enterprise collaboration platform.
Willing to go through CI poly

Responsibilities

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.