JIRA Administrator

Columbia, MD, us on site Until 8/21/2026 First posted February 23, 2026 Last posted February 23, 2026
Job description

Mindlance is a national recruiting company which partners with many of the leading employers in the Life Sciences, IT, and Financial Services sectors, feel free to check us out at http://www.mindlance.com.


JIRA is used for issue tracking and project management by many teams. The JIRA administrator will manage, maintain, and support all JIRA configuration changes, including the evaluation and support of plugins across multiple environments. The administrator needs to work independently with multiple areas of the company.


JOB FUNCTIONS

• Create custom projects in JIRA. This may include creating complex project workflows, and custom issue type, screen, field, permission, and notification schemes.
• Create queries, reports, dashboards, and agile boards.
• Set-up a production-ready JIRA server, with strategy for periodic backup, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Manage user permissions to tools according to the needs of projects and teams.
• Lead and provide technical assistance and training in using JIRA and other tools, as identified.
• Test new versions of the tools and plug-ins to ensure compatibility
• Research and utilize industry methods and techniques

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS

• Expert-level system administration knowledge of JIRA
• Be willing to work directly with customers in developing workflows, screens, etc., to fit their desired outcome.
• Ability to understand what the customer wants, and to provide guidance on what may or may not work with regards to workflows, customization, etc.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships
• Possess overall business acumen
• Identify opportunities to be creative and innovative
• Demonstrate good conflict management skills and be decisive
• Possess good presentation skills
• Be comfortable interacting with senior management

Preferred Skills, Education, Experience:
•    shell or perl scripting
•    Degree Preferred


Thanks & Regards’
Rajiv Nair

732–456–8270


About this role

Summary

Manage, support, and customize JIRA for issue tracking and project workflows.

Job title

JIRA Administrator

Experience level

expert-level

Industry

it

Location requirements

Columbia, MD, US; on-site preferred

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

expert-level system administrationjira

Preferred skills

shell scriptingperl scripting

Specializations

system administrationjiraproject managementworkflowplugins
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Columbia, MD, USA

On-site City
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