Infrastructure Engineer, Scrum Master

Summary

Join Nava, a leader in reimagining government services, as an experienced infrastructure engineer. You will play a crucial role in enhancing critical systems, ensuring sub-millisecond transaction times and handling billion-user loads. This involves working within the government ecosystem, collaborating with contractors and civil servants, and navigating existing legacy systems. You'll lead agile support teams, facilitate Scrum ceremonies, and advocate for Agile best practices. The role requires significant cloud infrastructure experience and proficiency with Agile tools. You'll be responsible for maintaining codebases, supporting project work, and participating in on-call rotations. This position offers a competitive salary and is represented by Nava United.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar role within an Agile team
• Strong understanding of the Scrum framework and Agile principles
• Proficiency with Agile tools like Jira, Trello, or Azure DevOps
• A curious problem solver and accomplished generalist
• Previous experience maintaining a medium or large scale production system
• Significant Cloud infrastructure experience in areas such as deployment automation, site reliability engineering, TCP/IP networking, platform governance, etc
• Specific or translatable experience with AWS, terraform, jenkins, python scripting, and developer support
• Experience working with a range of deployment patterns, from server instances to containers to lambda
• Good written and verbal communication skills for customer and client interactions
• Ability to pick up and learn new development and operations skills

Responsibilities

• Devote approximately half time to leading agile (kanban) support team meetings and tracking ticket efficiency
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Advocate for Agile best practices and coach team members on Scrum roles and responsibilities
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure the backlog is well-defined and prioritized
• Work on a team of infrastructure engineers building and maintaining a mature devops platform used by many teams to reliably and securely deploy applications
• Maintain a variety of code bases (terraform, jenkins) and participate in architecture planning for improvements
• Support project work and external requests in support tickets
• Assist platform customers setup environments and coordinate with Delivery Lead to fill in feature gaps
• Create, update, and archive documentation and runbooks
• Join our on-call rotation as a first line of defense during production issues
• Work with government partners to discuss and resolve issues
• Take part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed

Benefits

• $120,800 - $135,900 a year
• This position is represented by Nava United