Scrum Master - Remote

Center for Internet Security; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading nonprofit organization as a Scrum Master, supporting Agile teams by fostering collaboration, facilitating essential meetings, and mentoring team members. This fully remote position allows you to impact cybersecurity efforts across the nation while leveraging your extensive experience and knowledge of Agile methodologies. CIS offers a competitive rewards package including health insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Health (PPO, EPO, HSA), Dental & Vision Insurance

$500 wellness card for Health Coverage Participants

401(k) with 4% Company Match

Flexible Spending Account (FSA) & Dependent Care Account (DCA)

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Paid Holidays

Wellness Program

Tuition Reimbursement

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience as a Software Developer Engineer (or related).
• 5 years’ experience working as an individual contributor on a scrum team.
• Experience in effective sprint planning.

Responsibilities

• Mentor team members in Agile practices, values, and principles.
• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings and assist Product Owners with story decomposition.
• Foster continuous improvement and remove impediments to delivery.

Skills

Agile practices

Team collaboration

Motivation

Facilitation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in any field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

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****The position of Scrum Master is a fully remote position, allowing the employee to work from any location within the United States.

Job Duties: The Scrum Master supports organization’s tactical development and delivery teams in adopting an Agile mindset. The Scrum Master guides, educates, and mentors teams about Scrum practices and Agile values, principles, and best practices. The Scrum Master is responsible for motivating and enabling the teams to work collaboratively and efficiently together, maximizing their performance, removing impediments, minimizing distractions, and escalating issues when they emerge.

What You'll Do:

Mentor team members in Agile practices, values, and principles.

Motivate and assist teams to accomplish their product or service delivery goals (which sometimes includes hard deadlines) and project initiatives in the servant leader tradition.

Prepare team members to expect and respond to changing or emerging organizational needs and support them when called upon to adjust priorities and/or approaches as circumstances dictate.

Facilitate daily stand-up meetings in addition to refinement, planning, and review meetings.

Assist Product Owners with story decomposition and help them to prioritize, estimate, and plan work.

Create and maintain information radiators and track metrics that inform on the team’s health and performance efficiency.

Foster continuous improvement, identify and remove impediments to delivery, and promote sound project management practices.

Cultivate positive, team-centric dynamics, and accountability.

Collaborate with mid-level and senior managers by providing them with team feedback and suggestions to resolve concerns.

Support the creation and delivery of educational classes, workshops, and learning opportunities that teach about Agile values, principles, and practices.

Respond to staff questions and inquiries regarding Agile and APO services. Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned.

What You'll Need:

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in any field

Required Experience

5 years’ experience as a Software Developer Engineer (or related).

Additional Requirements

5 years’ experience working as an individual contributor on a scrum team.

5 years' experience working in product development environment building or testing commercial software.

Experience as a scrum master for multiple scrum teams.

Experience in effective sprint planning.

Experience in facilitating quarterly increment planning sessions.

Experience with enterprise task management tools (JIRA, Confluence).

Required Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Work Hours: 40 hours per week

Travel Requirement: 10% domestic and international

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CIS takes pride in providing a comprehensive benefits package and supportive work environment.

We offer a competitive total rewards package at the Center for Internet Security:

• Base salary is determined on a number of factors including, but not limited to, education, experience and skills
• Health (PPO, EPO, HSA), Dental & Vision Insurance eligibility starting from the first day of hire
• $500 wellness card for Health Coverage Participants
• 401(k) with 4% Company Match, vested from the first day of hire
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) & Dependent Care Account (DCA)
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO) inclusive of vacation, personal and sick time
• Paid Holidays
• Wellness Program
• Employee Engagement Activities
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan PayDown Program
• Employee Referral program
• Employee Assistance Program

About Us

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through ourcore competenciesof collaboration and innovation. We are a community-driven nonprofit responsible for industry-leading best practices for securing IT systems and data. CIS is also a trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) government entities and election offices.

CIS has an award-winningreputationfor investing in its people (click here to learn more), as well as continuous learning and development . We offer our employees diverse opportunities to expand their impact personally and professionally, in their local communities, and among one another. CoreLeadership Principles drive our employees at every level of the organization, empowering them to be leaders in everything they do.

We are a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. Our CIS Hardened Images provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud.

CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC), which supports the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of U.S. elections offices.