Eligibility*Candidate must have an active Top Secret Clearance**Candidate must be local to the DC, Maryland, or Northern Virginia area.*DescriptionThe 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.
EducationBachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Benefit InformationOur 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
