Cornerstone Defense is hiring: Platform Scrum Master - CO in Aurora

Location: Aurora, Colorado Type: Contract Job #3419 Platform Scrum Master Aurora, CO Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Compensation Range: $130,000 - $155,000 Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense. Job Responsibilities: The role's core responsibility will be as a scrum master for an agile platform product team in charge of the team's agile cadence to include running scrum meetings, sprint reviews, PI planning, and agile metrics. You will help with the design and implementation of the platform. You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure to a modern platform infrastructure. Eliminate impediments that may arise to keep the team focused on their objectives. Assist the product owner in backlog grooming and agile scrum event preparations. Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions. Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premises VMware computing environments. Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management. Ensure security and compliance are integrated into the platform. Provide operational support for the platform. Required Skills: Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and 5+ years of related work experience. Experience with Agile Development Methodologies (E.g. scrum, SAFe). Great communication and interpersonal skills to successfully work with various teams. Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services. Experience with containerization using technologies such as Kubernetes or Docker. Experience with troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based Operating Systems. Experience with VMware. Experience with programming/automation/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C++, C#, Go). Current CompTIA Security + or ability to obtain within 90 days. Desired Skills: Experience with Agile Development Methodologies (E.g. scrum, SAFe) Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab). Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. Knowledge of secure coding practices such as OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation. Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore). Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization. Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework. Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration. Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.