Senior Scrum Master - W2 (No C2C or 1099) - Remote, must be local to MI, OH, IN, IL, WI, KY (Posted by SAM)

Must Haves

• Minimum 5+ years as a Scrum Master - with direct experience owning release management processes.
• Technical literacy - CI/CD pipelines, API contracts, SQL, Cloud terminology.
• Hands-on Azure DevOps experience (boards, dashboards, queries), GITHUB and experience managing release lifecycles including environment promotion (INT CERT PROD), code freezes, and rollback procedures.
• Experience with enterprise change management (ServiceNow, CAB, CR/CHG/CRQ, PRR) and SAFe or scaled agile frameworks including PI Planning.
• Experience driving engineering quality practices - automated testing adoption, code coverage standards, and release gate enforcement in teams with varying test maturity.

• Demonstrated ability to own RCA processes that identify systemic gaps beyond proximate causes, with actionable follow-through on preventive measures.
• Review the Overall PR Metrics, Familiar with Branching

• Release Management experience, Maintain a release audit trail — release notes, deployment records, incident postmortems — and monitor post-deployment health via Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Splunk.