Jira Administrator – Short Term Contract
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Jira Administrator for a two-month contract with experience in customization and configuration in Jira environments. Responsible for auditing, redesigning, and implementing Jira setups for clients in a remote-first environment.
Responsibilities:
- Audit the current Jira instance to identify over-customizations, structural problems, and reporting gaps
- Redesign and reconfigure workflows, issue types, custom fields, and project schemes to restore simplicity and maintainability
- Implement the agreed configuration directly in the Jira instance
- Install, configure, and validate add-ons required for reporting, portfolio planning, and test management
- Produce a clear configuration document covering workflows, issue hierarchy, field usage, and add-on setup
- Validate that reporting and project status tracking are fully functional before the engagement closes
Requirements:
- 5 to 8 years of hands-on Jira administration experience
- Demonstrated experience inheriting and restructuring over-customized or poorly planned Jira environments
- Ability to quickly diagnose root causes of structural and reporting problems in an existing Jira setup
- Ability to map business processes to Jira workflows
- Hands-on experience reconfiguring workflows, custom fields, screens, and project schemes
- Proficiency with Jira add-ons for reporting, portfolio planning, and test management including BigPicture, Xray, and EasyBI
- Ability to hit the ground running with no ramp-up time required
- Ability to produce clear, client-ready documentation
- Strong communication skills with a proven ability to build trust quickly with stakeholders and technical teams
- Proven ability to align stakeholders on design decisions before implementation begins
- Proven ability to deliver within a tight timeline without sacrificing quality
Benefits:
- Remote-first culture, flexible work schedule, and autonomy to do your best work.
- Responsibility and autonomy at a growing company
- The opportunity to build something big and exciting

















