Scrum Master (IT)

Job Description

Release Train Engineer

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

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

• 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 DevOps or GitHub Actions. Strong understanding of Linux, HTTP/REST APIs, DNS, TLS, ingress, load balancing, and scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant cloud administration, DevOps, or Kubernetes professional certifications.

• Experience supporting enterprise API, integration, or data platforms within regulated environments.

• Familiarity with GitOps 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 ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Benefits

• Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

• Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

• If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our

Benefits

• Department at accommodations. Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.

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Employee Type:

• Contract

Location

Chicago, IL, US

Job Type:

Date Posted: October 21, 2026

Pay Range: $80 - $85 per hour