Scrum Master - AWS - Outside of IR35 ! at Cloud Consulting, Remote/Solihull, 6 to 12 Months, £450-£475 per day

Cloud Consulting have an urgent requirement for an experienced Scrum Master to join a high-profile project for a leading project.

The role requires - SC and NPPV3 Vetting Clearance

It's a hybrid working pattern - 1 or 2 days on-site in Solihull, and the remainder remote, and is outside of IR35

As a Technical Scrum Master, you will facilitate Agile delivery within cloud and engineering teams, ensuring high-quality, secure, and predictable delivery of AWS, DevOps, and platform initiatives. Working closely with the Technical Delivery Manager, Product Owners, architects, and DevOps engineers, you will combine strong Scrum facilitation with sufficient technical depth to understand engineering challenges, remove complex impediments, and optimise delivery flow.

Unlike a traditional Scrum Master, you will actively engage in technical discussions, understand architectural dependencies, and help drive engineering excellence across cloud and DevOps teams

.Key Responsibilities:

• Support predictable delivery of AWS infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD initiatives.

• Remove complex technical impediments impacting engineering teams.

• Collaborate with the Technical Delivery Manager to manage sprint-level risks and cross-team dependencies.

• Work closely with engineers to improve flow across CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.

• Promote engineering best practices including Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, code reviews, and Dev SecOps principles.

• Monitor delivery metrics such as velocity, cycle time, deployment frequency, lead time for change, and defect rates.

• Support backlog refinement with a strong understanding of technical enablers and architectural dependencies.

• Encourage operational readiness throughout delivery, including documentation, monitoring, and support model considerations.

• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

• Escalate systemic delivery risks to the Technical Delivery Manager with clear impact analysis.

• Support incident learning reviews and promote shift-left quality practices.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years' experience as a Scrum Master within cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering environments.

• Strong understanding of AWS services (eg, EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch) and cloud operating models.

• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK).

• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, Bitbucket).

• Understanding of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, ECS, EKS).

• Experience working within regulated or government delivery environments.

• Proficient in Jira and Confluence for Agile tracking and reporting.

• Strong understanding of DevOps metrics (DORA metrics, deployment frequency, MTTR).

• Experience managing technical dependencies and delivery risks in complex environments.

• Exposure to incident, change, and problem management in live cloud environments.

• Strong facilitation, stakeholder communication, and conflict resolution skills.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

• SAFe Scrum Master or SAFe Agilist

• AWS Cloud Practitioner or Associate certification

• ITIL v4 Foundation

• Experience working in SC-cleared delivery environments

If you are interested, please forward a copy of your C.V in the first instance.