Jira Platform Expert - Remote (US)

Role: Jira Platform Expert Remote (US) Job Type: Contract Description • This is not a basic Jira admin role - they want someone who can manage Jira as a critical enterprise platform, demonstrate long-term ownership in large environments, and operate confidently across application, infrastructure, and migration strategy layers with minimal ramp-up. • Looking for somebody who has been focused on hands-on Jira Data Center support at scale and Jira Cloud migration experience at scale much larger than 6k users. • Looking for a senior, enterprise-level Jira platform expert who has operated in a very large, complex global environment (30,000–40,000+ users) and can own both Jira Data Center and Jira Cloud ecosystems. • The ideal candidate must have hands-on experience leading Data Center to Cloud migrations in large enterprises, not simple lift-and-shift projects, and should understand migration strategy, plugin rationalization, governance redesign, and post-migration stabilization. • Beyond application-level administration, the manager expects strong infrastructure and OS-level expertise, including server administration, clustering, monitoring, performance tuning, and scripting/automation to support large-scale migrations. Please Do Not Submit Profiles With The Following Background Experience limited to small or mid-size Jira environments (only a few thousand users). Candidates focused only on workflows, boards, and permissions without OS/server-level or infrastructure knowledge. No experience supporting 30k+ users in a global, multi-project enterprise environment. Pure system/OS administrators without deep Atlassian (Jira Data Center/Cloud) expertise. Only basic “lift-and-shift” migration experience -we require complex, enterprise-scale Data Center to Cloud migration exposure. No hands-on scripting or automation experience to support large-scale migration efforts.