Senior Platform Engineer (Atlassian Stack, Linux and Automation) for NATO with security clearance
WLG Mons, Wallonia, Belgium
Financial Services · 2-10 employees
About the role
You will be responsible for deploying, configuring, and maintaining the Atlassian stack, including Jira and Confluence, within a secure defense environment. This role involves proactive administration, security patching, troubleshooting, and integrating the platform with other enterprise systems.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least five years of experience administering Jira or Confluence Data Center in Linux environments. Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash and Python, along with a strong background in networking and security practices, is required.
Full description
Everybody uses Jira. Almost nobody runs it properly at this scale, underthese security rules.
You would be the senior engineer behind the collaboration platform of a multinational defencesecurity centre in Mons, Belgium — administering the Atlassian estate, integrating it witheverything around it, and keeping it secure.
What you would be doing
- Deploying, installing and configuring Jira Software Data Center, Confluence Data Center andthe plugins around them, to best practice and to the customer's own security direction
- Adding the plugins, add-ons and integrations the business actually needs
- Guarding the confidentiality and integrity of what sits in there
- Proactive maintenance and administration — users, access control, permissions — through theservice management tool
- Raising, chasing and implementing change requests: new releases, security patches, userfeatures ready for production
- Dealing with vendor support for bugs and feature requests
- Monitoring performance, troubleshooting, and tuning for security, reliability andresilience
- Running backups with the backup team, and testing and reporting on disaster recovery
- Applying security patches and upgrades promptly, and auditing so that need-to-know actuallyholds
- Supporting users, migrating data in and out, and customising workflows, forms and dashboardsto how teams really work
- Integrating with the wider estate, including the Microsoft product suite and SharePoint
- Writing the documentation, and keeping an eye on where the products are heading
What you would bring
- At least five years administering Jira Data Center or Confluence Data Center
- System administration in Linux environments
- Scripting for automation — Bash, Python
- Excellent Java, Groovy and ScriptRunner
- A strong grounding in networking and security practice
- Migrations into or out of the Atlassian stack
- Working within IT service management
- Ownership: the wish to finish what you start
- Excellent information management, and communication that makes technical detail land
- Professional English
Nice to have
- An Atlassian product certification
- A software development background, and Ansible
- Work for or with a military or governmental organisation
Why this one is worth a look
It is platform ownership, not ticket triage — the estate is yours to design, secure andautomate.
