Technical Scrum Master

Azusa Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off

Health, vision, and dental benefits

401(k) plan with match

Remote or Hybrid telework arrangements

Job summary

Azusa Solutions is seeking a Technical Scrum Master to join our team. You will lead agile ceremonies and coordinate with infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform engineering teams to deliver secure solutions in a highly technical environment.

You must hold an active TS clearance and be onsite in Washington, DC, 4-5 days per week, with at least 3 years as a Scrum Master. Proficiency with Jira/Confluence and strong communications are essential.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance.
• Ability to work onsite at the client location in Washington, DC, 4-5 days per week.
• Minimum 3 years of experience as Scrum Master.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Experience managing backlogs and sprint deliverables using Jira and Confluence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Scrum Master for infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform engineering teams.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies: Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Refinement, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Collaborate with engineers, ISSOs, architects, and product owners to deliver secure solutions.
• Align sprint objectives with cybersecurity requirements and program milestones.
• Manage backlogs, risks, and impediments across multiple workstreams.
• Ensure security and compliance criteria are included in user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Support ATO activities, remediation tracking, and security assessments.
• Prepare for audits and penetration testing activities with security teams.
• Monitor velocity, sprint metrics, and delivery against security deliverables.
• Utilize Jira and Confluence for reporting and compliance.

Skills

Scrum

Kanban

SAFe

Agile ceremonies

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

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

• 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

• 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 .