How to create site-admins that have rights only in their department area?

[Gabriel Novak]

Hi Everyone, we are currently using Jira in a team of 20, one organisation and many project boards. We now would like to add a team of a different department but we want to give them their own space including promoting one of them to the site-admin to add and remove users. However, we don't want their siteadmin to be able to look into our projects. How can we do that?

Thanks in advance

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Yes, and no.

You could add the users to the Site Admin group and not add them to other default Administrator groups. 

If your project permission schemes are set up to limit who has visibility in the projects, and specifically you would want to look at who as Administrator access to the projects, then the projects may appear invisible to users you make Site Admins as long as you don't add them to other groups that have access to the projects.

However, Site Admins would be able to modify their own access and group memberships to give themselves access to any project.

So, you can't absolutely lock site admins out of projects.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You should also bear in mind that Jira does a lot of sharing of configuration, so you are going to find cases where "I only have admin for silo X" can't work because a workflow, field, permission, notification scheme etc might well be used by silo Y as well.

[Gabriel Novak]

Not what I was hoping for but thanks a lot for the quick response!