Stellenbeschreibung

For our client we are looking for an Atlassian Suite System Architecture Consultant (f/m/d).

Start: 04.05.2026
Duration: 31.12.2026++
Capacity: 100%
Location: 75% Remote, 25% Frankfurt (occasionally, sometimes Berlin) 
1 week Frankfurt / 3 weeks remote in rotation, up to 50% onsite in peak times
Language: English is a must, German is a plus

Team:
DevOps for Platform (D4P) provides products and services that empower Engineering and Operations teams across the program while supporting the broader needs of Product Engineering. The D4P Platform Team delivers, operates, and continuously improves the core platform toolchain that supports seamless continuous integration, delivery, collaboration, and service management.

Objectives:
- Establish a Scalable and Secure Atlassian Platform Architecture
- Design Identity and Access Architecture
- Secure External Access
- Define Integration Architecture
- Define Reliability, SLOs, and Observability
- Define Release and Change Management Strategy
- Drive Architectural Governance and Alignment

Skills (must-have):
- Proven experience designing Jira, Confluence, and/or JSM in enterprise environments
- Strong architectural mindset with the ability to translate ambiguity into structured solutions
- Hands-on attitude: able to work closely with engineering teams
- Experience in platform thinking (treating internal tooling as a product)
- Ability to balance:
o Standardization vs flexibility
o Security vs usability
o Stability vs speed of change
o Strong stakeholder communication across technical and non-technical audiences
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based platforms
- Experience with IAM and identity federation (e.g. Keycloak or similar)
- Experience designing multi-tenant platforms
- Strong understanding of:
o Secure system exposure (reverse proxies, ingress, authentication flows)
o Plugin/extension management risks in Atlassian ecosystems
- Experience in defining of:
o SLAs/SLOs
o Monitoring and alerting concepts (e.g. Prometheus) 

Skills (should-have):
- Experience operating Atlassian tools in private cloud or regulated environments
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks
- Experience integrating Atlassian tools with:
- CMDB systems
- External ticketing systems
- DevOps platforms (e.g. GitLab)
- Experience building self-service platforms with templates and onboarding workflows
- Experience defining or governing plugin approval processes
- Experience designing external-facing service platforms (e.g. customer portals, partner integrations)
- Familiarity with observability stacks and incident management practices