Delivery Platform Contractor

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Job DescriptionWe have an opening for a technical scrum master/developer in the Application Delivery Platform project team to build a custom integrated endtoend platform that helps optimize the software delivery process. The endtoend process covers application/project planning, coding, building/development, testing/QA, deployment, and hosting. The applications the platform supports include web sites, web services, mobile apps, data applications and more, with a particular emphasis on the .NET platform. The goal for this platform is to increase the speed of software delivery, while maintaining/increasing the stability and security of our environments. An equally important goal for this platform is to provide immediate and quantifiable analytical feedback to application developers about the quality of their code, and guide them toward implementing immediate course correction. At this time, the project team is focusing on features such as release management, operational and systems analytics, easy startup of continuous integration for projects, and continuous deployment.We use a collection of open source tools and purchased software as the components of this platform, while the project team focuses on integration to use the right tool for the right job. Some examples of the tools we use are TFS with GIT, Jenkins CI server, Elastic Search, Apache Kafka, etc.We have a global team of 8 developers and infrastructure specialists, and we use Kanban board to manage our backlog. We have a prioritization committee thats comprised of customers from various parts of IT. The selection of the features and user stories is based on both user voices and the projects strategic direction. Responsibilities As the team scrum master, youOwn the daily team scrum, backlog planning, a list of ready items for the team to work on Own the communication with our prioritization committee Own meeting the SLA of the platform support. Triage the support items coming into our TFS backlog and ensure they are worked on within the SLA timeline. Own the revisions of Delivery Platform Roadmap. Work with the project teams technical architect on the Roadmap. Facilitate the team discussions on the Roadmap, and capture items that come up during offcycle discussion The scrum master portion of the role will take up about 30% of your time once you are onboarded. For the remainder of your time, you will be a developer working on the backlog user stories. Required SkillsVery strong project organization skills 3+ years of using TFS as the ALM tool to manage project work 5+ years of development experience on the Microsoft stack, including .NET, SQL Server, IIS, Windows Server 2018+, and TFS ASP.NET MVC/Web API & Web Forms experience HTML/CSS/JavaScript experience Experience working with GIT and TFVC source control Experience automating software delivery Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills Passion in learning new technology and creatively solving challenging problems Team player, strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to work autonomously BA/BS or equivalent experience Preferred ExperiencesHandson experiences in Test Driven Development Agile software development experiences Practical DevOps experiences (partnering with Ops and Dev teams) Automation scripting experience such as PowerShell Familiarity with popular JavaScript frameworks (Knockout.js, Angular, etc.) Familiarity with contributing back to OSS software (GitHub, etc.) Familiarity with cloud hosting (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, etc.) Familiarity with Jenkins CI platform Familiarity with Elastic Search analytics platform Familiarity with Apache Kafka messaging platform Experience with QA automation (Selenium, Test Architect, etc.) Experience with containers (Docker)