Lead Atlassian Cloud Platform Engineer

You will own the Atlassian Cloud ecosystem across multiple sites and environments. You will maintain its architectural integrity and security, automate configuration and access provisioning, establish governance, support teams with complex platform issues, and guide scalable platform growth.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple Atlassian Cloud sites
• Define and enforce Atlassian configuration and governance standards
• Maintain configuration as code through source control, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines
• Automate identity and access provisioning with Azure AD
• Automate project provisioning, workflows, permissions, and scheme management
• Develop self-service project setup capabilities
• Maintain configuration patterns across Jira and Confluence
• Separate internal and third-party collaboration environments securely
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventative improvements
• Provide enterprise-level support for complex Atlassian issues
• Advise Project Managers and engineering teams on workflows
• Coordinate identity and access integrations
• Automate administrative processes with scripting and tooling
• Build, mentor, and grow the Atlassian platform team
• Drive platform improvement initiatives

Requirements

• Extensive experience coordinating Atlassian Enterprise Cloud
• Experience as a lead or primary Atlassian platform owner
• Strong Jira Automation, REST API, and scripting expertise
• Experience implementing configuration as code for SaaS platforms
• Experience automating project configuration and standardisation at scale
• Understanding of identity-based access control and automated provisioning
• Experience connecting Atlassian with Azure AD or a similar identity provider
• Experience in audit-controlled or governance-heavy environments
• Experience creating secure multi-tenant or cross-company collaboration environments
• Understanding of data governance, security boundaries, and compliance
• Proficiency with PowerShell, Python, Go, or similar scripting languages
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
• Atlassian certifications
• Experience building internal self-service platforms
• Familiarity with DevOps tooling and infrastructure as code