Agile Delivery Lead — Scrum Manager (Security Focus)

Apex Systems; Brooklyn (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESPP

401K

HSA

Employee discounts

Job summary

Everforth Apex Systems is seeking a Scrum Manager to partner with Product Owners and cross‑functional teams, driving Agile delivery, and promoting secure, high‑quality software. You will coordinate vulnerability remediation across engineering, cybersecurity, risk, and infrastructure while removing impediments and ensuring sprint goals are met.

The role emphasizes shift‑left security, collaboration, and continuous improvement in complex environments.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum principles, practices, and facilitation techniques.
• Experience applying Agile practices across complex applications, multiple platforms, and diverse technology environments.
• Strong communication, collaboration, facilitation, and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Experience identifying and removing delivery impediments while promoting team ownership and accountability.
• Working knowledge of modern engineering practices, automated testing, and shift-left development.
• Familiarity with vulnerability management processes, risk-rating methodologies, and remediation service-level expectations.
• Understanding of security frameworks and standards, including NIST, OWASP, and PCI DSS.
• Experience working with vulnerability scanning, application security, or work-tracking platforms.
• Ability to translate technical security findings into actionable backlog items and clear business-risk language.
• Experience coordinating vulnerability remediation across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, and third-party dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product/Experience Owner to plan and facilitate Sprint events and promote effective team collaboration.
• Drive self-organization, accountability, continuous improvement, and a focus on outcomes.
• Monitor and improve Scrum processes to increase delivery effectiveness.
• Identify, expedite, and help remove impediments or external distractions impacting the development team.
• Keep squads focused on Sprint goals and priorities across product and Sprint backlogs.
• Coordinate across departments and enterprise teams to manage dependencies and promote Agile best practices.
• Apply Agile and Scrum practices across complex applications, platforms, and technology environments.
• Communicate delivery status, risks, dependencies, and priorities to stakeholders and leadership.
• Integrate security and vulnerability remediation into Sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release-readiness activities.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Risk, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity, exploitability, business impact, and regulatory requirements.
• Track remediation commitments, vulnerability aging, risk exceptions, and overdue findings through closure.
• Ensure critical and high‑risk vulnerabilities receive appropriate ownership, escalation, and resolution.
• Promote secure‑by‑design and shift‑left security practices, including code scanning, dependency scanning, threat modeling, and security testing.
• Coordinate vulnerability remediation across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, containers, APIs, and third‑party software.
• Coordinate emergency Sprint work for actively exploited or zero‑day vulnerabilities requiring immediate attention.
• Ensure remediation activities include validation, retesting, documentation, and evidence of closure.
• Identify recurring vulnerability patterns and drive root‑cause corrective actions rather than repeated short‑term fixes.
• Communicate vulnerability status, risks, dependencies, and remediation forecasts to stakeholders and leadership.

Skills

Agile & Scrum

Cross-functional coordination

Delivery impediment removal

Shift-left development

Vulnerability management

Security frameworks (NIST/OWASP/PCI-DS

Vulnerability scanning

Application security

Backlog item translation

Cross-team remediation coordination

Job description

Everforth Apex Systems is seeking a Scrum Manager to partner with Product Owners and cross‑functional teams, driving Agile delivery, and promoting secure, high‑quality software. You will coordinate vulnerability remediation across engineering, cybersecurity, risk, and infrastructure while removing impediments and ensuring sprint goals are met.

The role emphasizes shift‑left security, collaboration, and continuous improvement in complex environments.