[Remote] Agile / DevOps Coach

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Jobs via Dice is seeking an experienced Agile / DevOps Coach to help software engineering teams achieve excellence in process, tools, and skills. This role focuses on improving flow, delivery reliability, and engineering effectiveness through modern Agile, Lean, and DevOps practices. Responsibilities • Improve Flow & Delivery Outcomes • Identify and remove constraints across the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle (idea to production) • Apply Lean principles to improve flow, including reducing batch sizes, limiting work in progress, and accelerating feedback loops • Help teams establish a reliable path to production with small, frequent changes and fast recovery from failure • Improve delivery performance across lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and time to restore service • Coach Teams on Modern Engineering Practices • Coach teams on practical Agile and DevOps engineering practices that enable continuous delivery (CI, automated testing, trunk-based development, deployment automation, observability) • Reinforce engineering discipline over process compliance • Facilitate working sessions such as flow reviews, value stream mapping, and retrospectives focused on systemic improvement • Help teams build confidence in their ability to release software at any time • Enable Sustainable Continuous Delivery • Support teams in decoupling deployment from release through feature flags, progressive delivery, and rollback strategies • Promote architectures and practices that reduce coupling, risk, and coordination overhead • Partner with platform, security, and operations teams to embed quality, security, and reliability into the delivery pipeline • Improve developer experience by reducing friction, manual steps, and hidden queues • Influence Leaders and the System • Coach leaders to shift from project-centric delivery to product and flow-oriented thinking • Introduce metrics that reflect real delivery health and flow efficiency, and help leaders use them as learning tools rather than performance weapons • Help evolve governance and planning practices to support fast feedback and continuous improvement Skills • Master's and 15+ years experience • Experience working with software engineering teams in Agile, Lean, or DevOps environments • Proven experience improving software delivery performance, not just Agile process adoption • Deep understanding of flow-based delivery, Lean systems thinking, and continuous delivery principles • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, modern DevOps tooling, and cloud-native delivery practices • Ability to influence engineers, product leaders, and executives with credibility and empathy • Background as a software engineer, platform engineer, or SRE • Experience coaching teams toward high-performing delivery metrics (e.g., frequent releases, low failure rates, fast recovery) • Familiarity with research on high-performing technology organizations and modern platform engineering models • Experience working in complex or regulated environments • Past or current Agile certifications like SAFe, ScrumMaster or similar Company Overview • Welcome to Jobs via Dice, the go-to destination for discovering the tech jobs you want. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in , with a workforce of 0-1 employees. Its website is https://www.dice.com. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job