Jira and Confluence Data Center Engineer (ScriptRunner, Groovy, Azure) for NATO with security clearance

A NATO organisation is running a short, sharp piece of work with an unusual shape: beforeit can go to market for a replacement, it needs its current cyber operations management platform —built on Atlassian Jira and Confluence Data Center — reproduced as a working mock-up, described asrequirements a third party could build from, and demonstrated live to industry. Four months, fullyremote, at your own facilities.

What you would be doing

• Building the mock-up. A simulated environment reproducing what the liveplatform does today across its two networks — the Jira and Confluence relationship, every plugin onthe production instance, all the Jira processes that support the operational missions, and thesupporting processes alongside them.
• Reproducing the harder machinery, not just the screens: the mechanism that lets low-sideworkflows be tracked from the high side with its hand-over and take-over, the wiki pages thatpublish dynamically off Jira issue changes, and the dynamic page templates behind the scaffoldingand reporting.
• Loading enough mock data that every process can be run at least ten times over without everreusing the same record.
• Capturing the requirements. Turning the mock-up into functional andnon-functional requirements in a NATO AQAP-conforming format — readable and unambiguous to a companywith no prior knowledge of the organisation — grouped logically, with the data that would have tomigrate to any new capability identified, drafted in Confluence and delivered as a Worddocument.
• Every requirement unique, testable, verifiable, unambiguous, traceable and necessary.
• Making the video. A recorded walkthrough introducing the platform and steppingthrough each requirement, with the timecode of each one noted in the requirements document. 1920x1080minimum, H.264/AVC, audio at 44 kHz or better, narrated by a native English speaker or someone atSTANAG 6001 speaking level 4, and hosted by you for the contract plus two months.
• Running the live demo. Presenting the mock-up online at an industry engagementday, covering the same ground as the video but taking questions — and guaranteeing the environmentis up and working on the day.

What they are looking for

• Five years or more of Atlassian Jira Data Center administration, and five yearsor more of Confluence Data Center administration.
• A strong understanding of how Jira and Confluence actually work underneath, including atdatabase level.
• Java, Groovy and ScriptRunner, and excellent scripting for automation andcustomisation (Bash, Python).
• Deploying solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Real experience of dynamic content management and Jira-to-Confluence integration.
• Managing metadata across Confluence, Office and PDF documents and SharePoint.
• Linux server management, RedHat for preference.
• Prior work on this platform itself is a considerable advantage.

Practical detail

• Fully remote — the work is executed entirely at the contractor's ownfacilities.
• Four months from contract award, with an estimated start of 1 September 2026.
• Four deliverables: the mock-up environment 60 days from award, the requirements document, thevideo, and the live industry demonstration.
• You must hold a valid clearance and be a citizen of a NATO member country.

If you know Atlassian Data Center deeply enough to rebuild someone else's instance from theoutside and then explain it to strangers, this is a genuinely interesting four months.