DevSecOps Engineer (Jira Service Management)

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Jira Service Management (JSM) engineer to implement and modernise an IT Service Management platform, including migration from the existing on-premise JSM DataCenter environment.

This is not a like-for-like migration or a generic DevOps infrastructure role. The focus is on JSM engineering, ITSM workflow automation, and integrations with SHIP-HAT Jira, Confluence, GitLab and other enterprise platforms to connect service operations with software delivery.

Key Responsibilities

. Assess the existing JSM environment and design a simplified, modern target-state ITSM solution on SHIP-HAT JSM.

. Configure JSM service projects, portals, request forms, workflows, queues, SLAs, permissions, approvals and notifications.

. Implement and improve incident, service request, problem, change and knowledge-management workflows.

. Develop automation for ticket routing, approvals, escalation, incident handling and service fulfilment.

. Design, build and troubleshoot integrations using REST APIs, webhooks, scripting and supported connectors.

. Integrate JSM with Jira, Confluence and GitLab/DevOps tools, using approved interfaces, to improve traceability across incidents, changes, releases and engineering work.

. Plan and support migration of agreed configurations and data from JSM Data Center, including mapping, testing, validation and cutover.

. Support user acceptance testing, technical documentation, operational handover and post-go-live stabilisation.

Required Experience and Skills

. Proven hands-on delivery of at least one Jira Service Management implementation experience using Jira only for issue tracking is insufficient.

. Strong JSM configuration skills covering workflows, request types, forms, automation rules, SLAs, permissions and service portals.

. Practical understanding of ITSM processes, particularly incident, service request, problem and change management.

. Experience building automation and system integrations using REST APIs, webhooks and scripting.

. Experience integrating JSM or comparable enterprise workflow platforms with other systems.

. Working knowledge of GitLab or similar DevOps tools, CI/CD concepts, and release/change-management integration.

. Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence able to work across IT operations and software engineering teams.

. Able to own a technical workstream independently, troubleshoot issues and communicate with stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

. Jira/JSM Server or Data Center-to-cloud migration, including configuration and data migration.

. JSM Assets/CMDB, service catalogue design and knowledge-management integration.

. Automation linking GitLab pipelines or deployments to ITSM change and incident processes.

. ITIL certification or experience in a highly governed enterprise/public-sector environment.

. AIOps or AI-enabled ITSM, such as incident summarisation, ticket classification, knowledge recommendations or intelligent routing.