Scrum Master

About the position

The Scrum Master supports agile team(s) in delivery of complex cloud solutions that deliver business value. This position will partner with the product owner to support product backlog definition/refinement/prioritization to feed sprints. Proactively eliminate barriers, coach team members on best practices and run scrum ceremonies.

Responsibilities

• Teaches, mentors, coaches and facilitates the agile mindset.
• Facilitates and coaches team's progress toward the goal and commitments through improvement in quality, predictability, flow and velocity.
• Facilitates improvements in practices/processes within teams.
• Facilitates Scrum ceremonies including daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, team demos and retrospectives.
• Focuses on improving team dynamics, performance and management of conflicts while exhibiting lean agile and scrum principles.
• Supports and coaches the Product Owner, preserves collaborative relationships and communicates extensively with the global community.
• Identifies and removes impediments while maintaining a healthy and transparent relationship.
• Facilitates preparation and readiness for Agile Release Train (ART) ceremonies and supports the team and ART estimate.
• Helps coordinate with other teams on the ART.
• Supports the Scrum team in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and AWS cloud best practices.
• Works with the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) to ensure the Scrum team follows the cloud governance and compliance policies.

Requirements

• Able to clearly communicate in verbal/non-verbal and written forms.
• Demonstrates the ability to work together in a collaborative way.
• Demonstrates the ability to build relationships both inside and outside of individual team.
• Able to create plans to ensure work gets completed and organize themselves to ensure that processes are followed.
• At least 2 years of experience in AWS cloud technologies and services.
• Strong knowledge of IAC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

Nice-to-haves

• AWS Certifications.

Benefits

• Health, dental and vision care.
• 401k.
• Wellness initiatives.
• Life insurance.
• Paid time off.