Scrum Master

Summary

Join Amber Labs, a cutting-edge technology consultancy, as a highly skilled Agile Scrum Master. This remote, fixed-term contract role requires leading Agile teams, delivering client outcomes, and managing cloud-based projects throughout their lifecycle. You will need expertise in cloud infrastructure, project management, and Agile methodologies, along with strong leadership and communication skills. The position demands a recognized Scrum Master certification, project management methodology experience, and a degree. Amber Labs offers a flexible work environment, private medical insurance, a company pension plan, generous annual leave, and access to employee rewards and perks.

Requirements

• Expertise in cloud infrastructure
• Strong background in project management
• Deep technical knowledge
• Excellent leadership skills
• Passion for Agile methodologies
• AWS
• Cloud Formation or Terraform
• Nginx
• Linux administration
• Packer
• Collaboration tools (Git, Jira, Confluence, etc)
• Experience or certification in at least one recognised project management methodology e.g. PRINCE2
• A recognised Scrum Master certification
• Qualified to degree level (or equivalent)
• Ability to build productive stakeholder relationships
• Strong presentation and communication skills and the confidence to present to senior client personnel
• Fully mobile across the UK
• A passion for Agile ways of working with teams and with your clients
• A track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conference attendance, user groups, and self-study
• Experience in providing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team
• Excellent skills and knowledge of collaborative leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Knowledge of the patterns and techniques used in an Agile project e.g. burndown metrics, backlog tracking, velocity, task definition, retrospectives and defect management
• Demonstrable experience in managing bespoke software and/or Digital Development/Experience Design projects/implementation and integration projects, from inception through to delivery

Responsibilities

• Lead Agile teams
• Deliver meaningful outcomes for clients
• Manage the full lifecycle of cloud-based projects
• Build productive stakeholder relationships
• Present to senior client personnel
• Work within an agile context with the use of CI (continuous improvement)
• Articulate a logical design, and understand how this translates to physical infrastructure
• Define and work with the constraint of NFRs such as cost, scalability, availability

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Hashicorp tools (Packer, Consul, Vault, etc)
• Other networking technologies

Benefits

• Flexible work environment focused on deliverable outcomes
• Private medical insurance through Aviva
• Company pension plan through Nest
• 25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays
• Access Perkbox, a global employee rewards platform offering discounts, perks, and wellness resources
• Generous employee referral program
• Highly collaborative and collegial environment with opportunities for career advancement
• Encouraged to take bold steps and embrace a mindset of experimentation
• Choose your preferred device, PC or Mac