Scrum Master

Koniag Technology Solutions a Koniag Government Services company is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support agile delivery teams responsible for operating and maintaining cloud environments across Azure AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate is an energetic servant-leader who is passionate about agile principles and practices with a strong understanding of cloud operations and infrastructure delivery. The ability to obtain or maintain an active Secret clearance is required to support our government customer. We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health dental and vision insurance 401K with company matching flexible spending accounts paid holidays three weeks paid time off and Scrum Master will play a critical role in facilitating agile ceremonies removing impediments and enabling high-performing delivery teams responsible for operating and maintaining cloud environments across Azure AWS and GCP. The Scrum Master will work closely with Product Owners engineers security engineers and program leadership to ensure teams remain focused aligned and continuously improving. This individual will support multiple small focused teams managing cloud service offerings at varying FISMA compliance levels. Principal responsibilities will include but are not limited to:Serve as a servant-leader and coach for one or more agile delivery teams championing Scrum values principles and practices across the all Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning Daily Standups Sprint Reviews Sprint Retrospectives and Backlog Refinement closely with Product Owners to ensure the product backlog is well-maintained clearly prioritized and that user stories are clearly defined with actionable acceptance track and actively work to remove impediments and blockers that hinder team progress escalating issues to program leadership when a culture of collaboration transparency continuous improvement and accountability across cloud engineering and operations and coordinate delivery activities across teams responsible for Azure AWS and GCP cloud environments ensuring alignment with program goals and customer cross-team coordination and dependency management to ensure smooth delivery across multiple cloud with engineering leads and security engineers to ensure that compliance security and operational requirements are accounted for in sprint planning and backlog and communicate team velocity sprint progress and delivery metrics to stakeholders and program teams in the adoption and continuous refinement of DevOps and CI/CD practices as they relate to cloud infrastructure teams in maintaining documentation operational plans and implementation records for cloud solutions across Azure AWS and GCP a culture of automation operational excellence and process improvement within and across delivery in program-level Agile ceremonies and contribute to broader Agile transformation efforts across the teams operating at FISMA Moderate and FISMA High compliance levels ensuring sprint activities account for regulatory and security and Experience:Bachelors degree in computer science Business Administration Information Technology Project Management or a related field from an accredited college or university.5 years of experience as a Scrum Master with demonstrated experience supporting technical engineering or cloud infrastructure Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) certification experience working with teams that develop operate or maintain cloud environments in one or more of the following platforms: Azure AWS or supporting teams within a federal government IT supporting teams operating within FISMA Moderate and/or FISMA High compliance Skills and Competencies:Exceptional communication skills in English both written and oral with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders including executive understanding of Agile and Scrum principles values and practices with the ability to coach teams at varying levels of Agile to facilitate productive focused Scrum ceremonies and drive meaningful working with and supporting cloud infrastructure or cloud operations teams in Azure AWS and/or GCP with Agile project management and collaboration tools such as Jira Confluence Azure DevOps or similar understanding of the DevOps lifecycle CI/CD practices and how they intersect with cloud infrastructure ability to identify and remove impediments manage risks and escalate issues to track and report on team velocity sprint metrics and delivery progress in a clear and concise managing cross-team dependencies and coordinating delivery across multiple concurrent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced to building and sustaining a culture of collaboration transparency and continuous to obtain and maintain a government security Skills and Competencies:Advanced Agile certifications such as Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II).Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).Experience with Kanban methodology and familiarity with hybrid Agile delivery knowledge of cloud platforms including Azure AWS and GCP including familiarity with common cloud services IaaS/PaaS offerings and cloud operations with FISMA compliance frameworks and FedRAMP authorization supporting teams responsible for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) delivery using tools such as Terraform Ansible or of cloud security best practices and how security requirements are incorporated into agile delivery with Zero Trust architecture principles and their implications for cloud operations Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race color religion creed ethnicity sex sexual orientation gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification) national origin or ancestry age disability citizenship military/veteran status marital status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment promotion wages benefits and all other privileges terms and conditions of company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants. 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