Jira Platform Engineer (Enterprise Data Center & Cloud Migration Leader)

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Jira Platform Engineer
(Enterprise Data Center & Cloud Migration Leader)


6 month contract (potential extension)


1005 Remote


w2 only


Overview:
We are seeking a senior, enterprise-level Jira Platform Engineer to join a highly experienced team that plays a vital role in product development operations. This position supports one of the largest and most complex Jira Data Center environments globally and will be instrumental in leading and executing a large-scale migration to the Atlassian Cloud Stack.


This is not a basic Jira administrator role. The selected candidate must be capable of owning Jira as a mission-critical enterprise platform — operating confidently across application administration, infrastructure layers, and cloud migration strategy.


The environment supports 30,000–40,000+ global users, and the right candidate must have experience operating at comparable scale.


What You’ll Do:

• Own and support large-scale Jira Data Center environments (enterprise scale)
• Lead and contribute to complex Data Center to Jira Cloud migrations
• Develop migration strategies beyond simple lift-and-shift approaches
• Perform plugin rationalization and governance redesign for Cloud readiness
• Support post-migration stabilization and performance optimization
• Administer both Jira Data Center and Jira Cloud ecosystems at scale
• Perform application-level upgrades, optimization, cleanup, and performance tuning
• Maintain and enhance monitoring and alerting solutions (New Relic, Splunk)
• Build and automate tooling to expand self-service capabilities
• Integrate Jira with enterprise platforms (e.g., GitHub and related development tools)
• Partner with infrastructure teams to ensure systems are patched, secure, and optimized
• Troubleshoot complex front-end...