Sr Specialist Scrum Master (Kubernetes delivery, AKS)
Hyderabad, India
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to ensure backlog readiness and clear acceptance criteria.
- Track epics, stories, enablers, and operational improvements to align with roadmap commitments.
- Identify, escalate, and remove delivery impediments and cross-team dependencies.
- Drive delivery transparency through clear status communication to technical and business stakeholders.
- Manage risks and release dependencies across support, SRE, and platform workstreams.
- Track Agile metrics such as sprint predictability, throughput, cycle time, and spillover trends.
- Coach teams on Scrum best practices and continuous improvement behaviors.
- Support planning and execution of initiatives involving observability/platform improvements.
- Ensure effective collaboration between engineering, operations, and leadership stakeholders.
Required Qualifications / Must-Have Skills
- 8+ years of experience as Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead in technical teams.
- Strong hands-on experience with Scrum delivery frameworks.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated experience in dependency/risk management across multi-team delivery.
- Experience using Agile lifecycle tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent).
- Ability to improve team-level delivery outcomes through coaching and process improvements.
- Experience working with engineering/operations teams in high-availability environments.
- Working proficiency with Kubernetes delivery contexts, especially Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), to effectively manage dependencies, risks, and release coordination.
Good-to-Have / Nice-to-Have
- Scrum certifications (CSM, PSM, SAFe, or equivalent).
- Familiarity with observability and platform tooling contexts (Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/OpenSearch).
- Basic awareness of event-driven ecosystems (Kafka/Event Hub).
- Prior telecom or large enterprise digital operations experience.
Experience Level
Mid-Senior (typically 8 to 10 years)
Location / Work Mode
Onsite (Hyderabad / Bangalore or designated AT&T location)
What We Offer
- High-visibility role influencing delivery quality and execution predictability.
- Opportunity to drive Agile maturity for mission-critical platform teams.
- Collaborative and growth-oriented environment with enterprise-scale impact.
Weekly Hours:
40Time Type:
RegularLocation:
IND:AP:Hyderabad / Argus Bldg 4f & 5f, Sattva, Knowledge City- Adm: Argus Building, Sattva, Knowledge City, IND:KA:Bangalore / Intl Tech Park, Navigator Bldg, Whitefield Road: Whitefield Road:Intl Tech Park, Navigator BldgAT&T and its subsidiaries are committed to equal employment opportunity. All hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions remain merit-based and free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical disability, mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made. Click here to learn more or request an application accommodation here.
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- Paid Time Off
- Tuition Assistance
- Medical and dental plans
- Discounts
- Training & Development
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