Scrum Master; IT

# Scrum Master (IT)
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** Job#: 3056752
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* Job Description:

** Release Train Engineer
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* Location:

** Chicago, Illinois

Role Overview The Release Train Engineer will facilitate the planning, coordination, and execution of release activities to support global delivery objectives. This role requires hands-on experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure, building robust deployment automation, and deploying API services on containerized platforms. The selected professional will collaborate closely with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to establish repeatable, secure, and reliable deployment processes across multiple environments.

Operating during U.S. business hours, this individual will play a vital role in reducing delivery risk, improving coordination across global teams, and ensuring program continuity.

Key Responsibilities
* Coordinate planning, dependency management, and stakeholder communications to improve overall delivery predictability.
* Execute production releases, validate service health after deployment, and maintain tested rollback procedures and release runbooks.
* Configure and operate database instances, including container creation, index maintenance, resource allocation, and data copying.
* Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines to automate testing, artifact management, and environment promotion.
* Configure containerized deployments, services, ingress, health probes, resource requests, and environment-specific application settings.
* Configure secure API connectivity, load balancing, private endpoints, and integration with API management solutions.
* Implement least-privilege access, managed identities, role-based access control, and secure secrets management.
* Integrate automated tests, container image scanning, security checks, and approval gates into deployment pipelines.
* Troubleshoot failed deployments, networking issues, authentication challenges, and API performance problems in collaboration with operations teams.
* Partner with Agile program management offices and delivery leadership to support program execution, operational excellence, and governance.

Required Qualifications
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* Education:

** Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
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* Experience:

** Demonstrated hands-on engineering experience in cloud infrastructure provisioning, containerization, and release management within complex delivery programs.
** Technical

Skills:

** Practical proficiency with Azure infrastructure, AKS, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and YAML-based pipelines in Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub Actions. Strong understanding of Linux, HTTP/REST APIs, DNS, TLS, ingress, load balancing, and scripting languages such as Power Shell, Bash, or Python.

Preferred Qualifications
* Relevant cloud administration, Dev Ops, or Kubernetes professional certifications.
* Experience supporting enterprise API, integration, or data platforms within regulated environments.
* Familiarity with Git Ops tools, progressive deployment strategies, and monitoring solutions like Prometheus or Grafana.
* Knowledge of private networking, workload identity, and disaster recovery planning.  
* Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including Clearly Rateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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