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Job Description:
We are looking for a Scrum Master with cloud experience to coordinate our cloud projects and to coach our cloud engineering team in the use of Agile methodologies. HMH’s cloud engineering team is responsible for delivering and managing cloud environments to meet the needs of multiple internal customers. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the primary cloud platform, and Azure is secondary.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the scope and timeline for each project/workstream; facilitate release definition, cycles, and planning
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups to keep team focused on current sprint goals
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks including the definition and upkeep of achievable user stories; drive stories during sprints to foster business value for product owners; guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
- Accountable alongside the scrum team for the achievement of release objectives and results that meet stakeholders’ needs and expectations
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
- Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
- Understand and actively manage the capacity of the team, including challenging product owners on prioritization
- Escalates roadblocks, issues, or risks to project scope, timelines, and/or quality of work
- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
- Maintain and reports team performance/metrics
Requirements and Skills:
- Experience in a scrum master role
- Familiarity with cloud SecDevOps
- Familiarity with most of the following technologies (GCP, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Terraform, Github, Github Actions)
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (Crystal, XP etc.)
- Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
- Outstanding organizational skills