Booz Allen

ScrumMaster

$99–99k McLean, Virginia, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Scrum Master at Booz Allen. Skills: Scrum Master, Agile, coaching, process improvement, infrastructure management, automated deployment. Coaching a development team to achieve its highest performance level. Ensuring the scrum project is successfully progressed”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver secure computing environment at speed; Achieve highest performance level; Successfully progressed scrum project; Accomplish sprint targets; Directly impact computing environment delivery; Deliver 'secure by default' environments; Drive predictability and continuous team growth; Maintain team flow; Ensure Scrum ceremonies are time-boxed, productive, and result in actionable outcomes; Ensure system reliability and performance

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Combat challenges early; Eliminate complex technical and organizational bottlenecks; Solve unusually complex problems

Eligibility Requirements

Expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments, Use of AI or other tools to assist with responses during interviews is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided, Employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years of experience as a scrum master, Experience analyzing Agile metrics such as Cycle Time, Throughput, or Velocity to drive predictability and continuous team growth, Experience coaching cross-functional teams and stakeholders on self-organization, transparency, and Agile values, Experience identifying and eliminating complex technical and organizational bottlenecks to maintain team flow, Ability to lead all Scrum ceremonies and workshops, ensuring they are time-boxed, productive, and result in actionable outcomes, Bachelor's degree, Advanced Certification such as PSM II/III, A-CSM, or CSP-SM Certification

Nice to Have

5+ years of experience designing and managing scalable, high-availability infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments, Experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, or CloudFormation to automate resource provisioning and ensure environment consistency, Experience with Kubernetes, including EKS, AKS and GKE, and Docker, including cluster configuration, networking, and security hardening, Experience building and maintaining automated deployment pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins to streamline code delivery, Experience implementing full-stack monitoring and logging solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog to ensure system reliability and performance

What You'll Do.

Coaching a development team to achieve its highest performance level

Ensuring the scrum project is successfully progressed

Strengthening sustainable process improvements

Helping the team accomplish their sprint targets

Guiding and mentoring colleagues

Making sure teams are focused on delivery

Leading all Scrum ceremonies and workshops

Analyzing Agile metrics

Coaching cross-functional teams and stakeholders on self-organization

Identifying and eliminating complex technical and organizational bottlenecks

Designing and managing scalable

high-availability infrastructure

Automating resource provisioning

Ensuring environment consistency

Configuring Kubernetes clusters

Hardening Kubernetes security

Building and maintaining automated deployment pipelines

Implementing full-stack monitoring and logging solutions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Coaching a development team; Coaching cross-functional teams and stakeholders; Collaborating with key stakeholders; Collaborating with colleagues; Collaborating with teams and customers

Process & Methodology

Scrum project management, Agile project management, sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives

Full Job Description

Scrum Master **The Opportunity****:** As a scrum master, you’re passionate about outcomes and supporting a development team that’s modernizing critical projects. You know the importance of Agile best practices and how to combat challenges early to get work done. We need a seasoned scrum master like you to create solutions that’ll help deliver secure computing environment at speed. On our team, you’ll coach a development team to achieve its highest performance level while ensuring the scrum project is successfully progressed. You’ll work on unusually complex problems, introduce leading-edge concepts, and provide highly innovative solutions to your team and key stakeholders. Using tools like Jira and MS Tasks, you’ll strengthen sustainable process improvements to help your team accomplish their sprint targets, including sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. In this role, you’ll guide and mentor your colleagues to directly impact computing environment delivery by helping make sure our teams are focused on our ability to deliver. This is an opportunity to share your expertise in IT management and software delivery while successfully delivering project solutions that will deliver "secure by default" environments. Join us. The world can’t wait. **You Have:** * 7+ years of experience as a scrum master * Experience analyzing Agile metrics such as Cycle Time, Throughput, or Velocity to drive predictability and continuous team growth * Experience coaching cross-functional teams and stakeholders on self-organization, transparency, and Agile values * Experience identifying and eliminating complex technical and organizational bottlenecks to maintain team flow * Ability to lead all Scrum ceremonies and workshops, ensuring they are time-boxed, productive, and result in actionable outcomes * Bachelor's degree * Advanced Certification such as PSM II/III, A-CSM, or CSP-SM Certification **Nice If You Have:** * 5+ years of experience designing and managing scalabl

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