Scrum Master at Cisco in Alpharetta, GA

Lancope is looking for a Scrum Master to be an integral part of our solution delivery team. The Scrum Master will provide technical leadership, Scrum leadership and people leadership in the design and development of functionality and services common across all Lancope products.

Main Responsibilities

• Enjoys building teams and working with other teams to solve technical and organizational issues.
• Will perform the role as Scrum Master for a team.
• Will reinforce the importance of architectural and design patterns to support the operations of working software in production.
• Attention to quality based design and delivery
• Will perform manager responsibilities like reviews, salary discussions, promotions and other manager duties.
• Will influence hiring decisions for future candidates.
• Will work with other leaders and Scrum Masters to improve organizational operations and to improve integration of lean/agile principles into the teams and organization.
• Will use metrics and data to support ideas and decisions and in the absence of data will look for ways to build it in.
• Will support the team in paying attention to quality based design and delivery.
• Care about keeping the code maintainable, preserving its integrity

Key Attributes

• Thrives working in a lean/agile environment
• Passion to learn new technologies and standards in support of the team
• Focuses on built-in quality through multiple testing vectors including unit tests, automated functional, builds, deployments and automated integration testing
• Automates any process done more than once
• Passionate to learn new technologies and standards
• Enjoys building things and shipping them. Truly making them work
• Team player with positive attitude toward new challenges and growth
• Excellent communications and documentation skills

Desired Skills and Experience

• 4+ years interfacing with software development teams utilizing languages such as Java, C/C++, C# or Scala.
• Time in an on call role preferred.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience. MBA a bonus.
• Success in an Agile Scrum environment in support of a continuous product delivery.
• Experience with solving complex design problems around large data sets preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker a plus.
• Familiarity with Network Security or Information Technology domain space preferred
• People management experience.
• Hands on experience with Scrum. This includes being on a team and being the Scrum Master for a team.