Jira Administrator with Ansible

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Baltimore, MD, USA
In-Office
126K-228K Annually
Information Technology • Software
The Role

The Digital Modernization Sector has an opening for a Jira Administrator with Ansible to work in Woodlawn, MD five days a week.

Leidos is seeking a Jira Administrator with Ansible to be part of the mission solution and help lead digital modernization strategy. We are a team of forward-looking professionals in need of a strong candidate with these key required skills:  Ansible Automation, Jira Administration, Atlassian Suite (Confluence, Bitbucket) Administration, Jenkins Administration, Checkmarx Administration, and Availability Monitoring / Triage (Splunk, Dynatrace).

This position will require onsite work in Woodlawn, MD five days a week.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

  • Build, maintain, automate, ensure reliability, and implement next-generation DevSecOps platform using system/software engineering best practices and the latest technologies:

    • DevOps (Jenkins, Nexus Repository, Checkmarx, SonarQube, BlackDuck, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker)

    • Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (Ansible, Scripting, UrbanCode Deploy)

  • Provide on-call support for next-generation DevSecOps platform.

  • Administer DevSecOps platform including installing, migrating, upgrading, deploying, troubleshooting, and configurating on Linux.

  • Provide subject matter expertise in one or more of these areas: automation, security, monitoring and alerting, incident response optimization, SQL tuning, Atlassian suite including plugin administration, and other CI/CD tools.

  • Investigate and actively support with operational team to ensure business continuity regardless of component: front-end, business logic, middleware, networking, CI/CD pipeline, or database (PL/SQL and Data Modeling).

  • Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience.

  • All other duties as assigned or directed.

Education & Qualifications (Required Qualifications):

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, OR a related field with 12+ years of experience OR Masters degree with 10 years of relevant experience.  Additional years of experience may be substituted/accepted in lieu of degree.

  • 12+ years of combined experience with system administration of Jenkins, Git (Bitbucket, GitHub, Gitlab), Checkmarx, and a DevSecOps platform.

  • 4+ years of experience with Jira administration.

  • 4+ years of experience with Ansible automation.

  • 2+ years of experience in on-call operation support role for a mission critical system.

  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Factors to Help You Shine (Required Qualifications): 

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

  • Strong experience with Ansible Automation and authoring playbooks and roles for installing, maintaining, or upgrading platforms.

  • Solid experience using version control software such as Git including peer reviewing playbooks.

  • Hands-on experience administrating/maintaining DevSecOps platform via Ansible playbooks (e.g. upgrading Jenkins).

  • Hands-on experience administrating Jira via Ansible playbooks.

  • Experience creating complex Jira workflows, projects, service desk, custom configurations, notifications, etc.

  • Hands-on experience administrating Atlassian Suite (one or more of the following:  Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket), associated plugins, and integration.

  • Experience administrating an artifact repository (one or more of the following:  Nexus, NXRM, JFrog Artifactory), and software quality scanning tools (one or more of the following:  Checkmarx, SonarQube, Black Duck).

  • Solid experience triaging and monitoring (Splunk, Dynatrace) complex issues, outages, and incidents as part of on-call support rotation.

  • Strong experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like Shell, or Python.

  • Solid experience with integrating/maintaining with various 3rd party CI/CD tools.

  • Experience analyzing, researching, maintaining, and integrating tool plugins.

  • Basic Linux skills supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

  • Basic networking skills.

How to Stand Out from the Crowd (Desired Qualifications):

Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

  • Basic SQL skills (e.g., data manipulation, removing duplicate records).

  • Atlassian Suite administration certifications.

  • AWS cloud certifications.

  • Experience with AWS administration (EC2, S3, ELB, EBS/EFS/S3).

  • Experience with PaaS using Red Hat OpenShift.

Original Posting:May 16, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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The Company
Alexandria, VA
27,104 Employees
Year Founded: 1969

What We Do

We Are Leidos For 50 years we have been tackling some of the biggest problems that face our nation and our world. OUR MISSION Through our culture of innovation and history of performance, we develop deep customer trust built on integrity and create enduring solutions that improve our world. Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020. Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®. Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the newly launched Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos. Your most important work is ahead.

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