Technical Scrum Master

District of Columbia

2 days ago

Job Description

Azusa Solutions is seeking a Technical Scrum Master to join our team of talented consultants. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing company comprised of highly qualified, highly impactful, and multi-talented individuals.

Eligibility

*Candidate must have an active Top Secret Clearance*
*Candidate must be local to the DC, Maryland, or Northern Virginia area.*

Description

The Technical Scrum Master will:

Serve as Scrum Master for infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform engineering teams to support secure solution delivery.
Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives for highly technical teams.
Partner with Infrastructure Engineers, Cybersecurity Engineers, ISSOs, Enterprise Architects, and Product Owners to prioritize and deliver infrastructure modernization and security initiatives.
Drive alignment between sprint objectives, operational priorities, cybersecurity requirements, and program milestones.
Manage technical backlogs, dependencies, risks, and impediments across infrastructure, cloud, networking, identity management, and cybersecurity workstreams.
Ensure security, compliance, and operational requirements are incorporated into user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint planning activities.
Support Authority to Operate (ATO) activities, including tracking remediation efforts, continuous monitoring requirements, POA&M actions, and security assessment findings.
Collaborate with security teams to prepare for audits, assessments, penetration testing activities, and compliance reviews.
Facilitate cross-team coordination to address vulnerabilities, technical debt, system upgrades, platform patching, and security remediation activities.
Monitor team velocity, sprint metrics, service delivery objectives, and cybersecurity deliverables to ensure successful execution.
Support infrastructure and cybersecurity project planning, roadmap development, and stakeholder communications.
Utilize Jira and Confluence and related tools to manage Agile delivery, reporting, and compliance activities.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Active Top Secret (TS) Clearance.
Ability to work onsite at the client location in Washington, DC, 4-5 days per week.
Minimum of 3 years of experience serving as a Scrum Master
Strong understanding of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe methodologies.
Experience managing technical backlogs, user stories, dependencies, risks, and sprint deliverables using Jira and Confluence.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience developing technical and operational documentation.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

Experience supporting ATO packages within federal environments.
Experience creating, updating, and maintaining cybersecurity documentation including SSPs, POA&Ms, SARs, Security Categorization documents, and Architecture Diagrams.
Understanding of cloud environments such as AWS GovCloud, or hybrid infrastructure platforms.
Knowledge of cybersecurity operations, vulnerability management, patch management, identity and access management, and continuous monitoring practices.
Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master) preferred.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Benefit Information

Our firm offers a professional and respectful work environment, exciting opportunities for professional growth, and comprehensive benefits, including:

Generous paid time off
Health, vision, and dental benefits
Long term/short term disability
Life insurance
401(k) plan with match available immediately
Employee referral incentive
Remote or Hybrid telework arrangements are available for some positions

About Azusa
Azusa Solutions (Azusa) helps clients solve their toughest challenges in the area Enterprise Application Development and Maintenance. Azusa is an equal opportunity employer. Find out more about Azusa at www.AzusaSolutions.com.

Numbers & Facts

Location	District of Columbia
Website	https://www.AzusaSolutions.com

Skills

Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
Atlassian JIRAunmatched
Backlog Prioritizationunmatched
Certified ScrumMasterunmatched
Cloud Computingunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Computer Scienceunmatched
Computer Securityunmatched
Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
Delivery Managementunmatched
Documentationunmatched
Enterprise Applicationsunmatched
Enterprise Architectureunmatched
Establish Prioritiesunmatched
Identity Data Managementunmatched
Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
Internet Securityunmatched
Kanbanunmatched
Life Insuranceunmatched
Maintain Complianceunmatched
Metricsunmatched
Network Administration/Managementunmatched
Operations Managementunmatched
Operations Planningunmatched
Penetration Testingunmatched
Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
Project Planningunmatched
Regulatory Complianceunmatched
Scrum Project Management and Software Developmentunmatched
ScrumMasterunmatched
Security Analysisunmatched
Security Patchesunmatched
Service Deliveryunmatched
Software Developmentunmatched
Software Patchesunmatched
Sprint Planningunmatched
Sprint Retrospectiveunmatched
Standup Meetingsunmatched
Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
Team Lead/Managerunmatched
Technical Leadershipunmatched
Technical Writingunmatched
Top Secret Clearanceunmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched

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