Scrum Master

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JOB DESCRIPTION - SCRUM MASTER

Who are Metaswitch?

Metaswitch is the world's leading cloud native communications software company. Our award-winning solutions help power more than 1,000 service providers and mobile operators, providing highly scalable and fault tolerant systems that run right in the core of their networks. We are internationally renowned for our exceptional technology, cutting-edge innovation and first-rate support - qualities we maintain by only recruiting, and retaining, the very best people.

We're incredibly proud of our company culture. We have a collaborative working environment where free and open dialog is welcomed, we avoid internal politics at all costs. Our aim is to seek out the better, faster and simpler solution, while supporting, challenging and developing each other.  

Our Midlands office is located in the outskirts of Coventry, which has good transport links to Coventry and surrounding towns like Leamington Spa, Warwick, Rugby and Solihull with many excellent schools and other facilities in the vicinity. 

The Scrum Master role

We are looking to recruit a new Scrum Master into the Engineering team responsible for Perimeta, the world leading cloud native carrier-class virtualized Session Border Controller, based in our Midlands office.

The Engineering team is the heart of Metaswitch - we are first and foremost an engineering company built on a community of driven, smart people who want to work in leading edge technology and make a real difference to our industry.  We have a strong company ethos for on-time delivery of top-quality and high-performance products within a non-political culture.  

As a member of the Perimeta Engineering team you will take a leading role in an agile team developing new features and product enhancements - dealing with complex systems, large codebases, and high scale. We work with a wide range of technologies such as the latest virtualisation, container and cloud deployment technologies. We currently use Jira to administer the scrum process.

Responsibilities

After an initial training and ramp-up period, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following.

Promote Agile values, principles and practices within the teams

Coach, mentor and empower the team around them as a servant-leader

Work with the Product Owner to manage the team's backlog effectively

Enhance trust and collaboration within the team

Contribute to the resolution of impediments, both within the team and across the organisation, to optimize the team's effectiveness

Collect, publish and react to team metrics collected from Jira

You have

For this position, we need someone who has the following skills/attributes.

A good graduate degree and a versatile and creative mind with excellent problem-solving ability

Self-motivation, inventiveness, energy and self-discipline

Excellent communications skills

Previous Scrum Master experience in one or more teams, along with a strong knowledge of scrum theory and practices

The ability to work effectively in a team and mentor/educate other team members

Our scrum masters are often technical team members as well, so the following attributes are useful but not essential.

Expertise in object oriented and scripting languages

Knowledge of a variety of development tools and applications, from e.g. CI/CD with git at one end to gdb at the other

Experience working with very large codebases (multiple millions of lines of code) and complex systems

Experience of all parts of the development process

Experience of communications and telecoms software (particularly SIP, DIAMETER and DNS)

 Package

We are looking for exceptional people and your initial salary will reflect your exceptional skills and ability. Your salary will be reviewed regularly based on your performance and contribution.

We also offer a competitive package of benefits including a substantial bonus plan, company share plan, a non-contributory pension, life insurance and private medical insurance plans, plus a flexible holiday policy.

We offer the opportunity to do an interesting and challenging job in a well-managed and successful company. Metaswitch is proud of our focus on and commitment to our employees, and that our staff retention is exceptionally high.  We're a company that appreciates and looks after our people and we demonstrate that in a number of ways including regular funded "morale events" from lunches or evenings out with your team to weekends away.

Every employee has a career development plan with no limitations on the direction your career will take within Metaswitch.

Application and Selection

Our recruitment process is designed to be thorough and tough, yet informative and friendly. Firstly, you will have a telephone interview with one of the Engineering Managers. This will give you an opportunity to find out more about the role and find out whether you are suited to Metaswitch. If successful, you will then normally be asked to come in to one of our offices for a series of interviews.

To apply for this position, please send a 

CV

covering email telling us about yourself and why you are interested in, and suited to, the role.

We look forward to hearing from you. 

Metaswitch is an equal opportunities employer.