Recruit new DevOps Engineer - Merge Team

[robinglov]

Dependency

• when we need to recruit more senior people

Overview

We need to recruit some developers who can review pull requests using terraform on the incubator repo.

Details:

In the future, we will be growing people on the team to do this, but in the meantime, we need someone to review the PRs that are coming in now.

Action Items

• [x] Copy the template on the Ops repo open roles board to a comment on this issue and add the following title

  # Template to use

• [x] Copy it again to another comment and give it the following title

  ### Draft for current open role

• [x] Edit the draft to customize it for what we need done
• [x] Get signoff from whomever we think should weigh in on this

Resources

• Instructions for how to post a volunteer opportunity on the ops board
• Ops open role board
• Link to the new card we create on the board
• Currently there are no specific general team meetings, however there is a Team leads meeting on Tuesdays at 6:30pm pst, and tech leads attend on an as needed basis.

[robinglov]

Template to Use

Data Engineer (DevOps)

This team member will be responsible for developing data pipelines to clean, transform, and process data. They will ensure data integration between systems, including deployment of machine-learning pipelines where necessary.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.

Basic Qualifications

• Working SQL knowledge (or interest) and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience or interest building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
• Experience or interest performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong analytical skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
• An interest in manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Experience or interest in/with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.

[madcharlie02]

Draft for Current Open Role

Developer (Terraform)

This team member will develop data pipelines to clean, transform, and process data. They will ensure data integration between systems, including code deployment within Terraform, an Amazon Webservice platform, where necessary. They will design and implement effective database solutions and models to store and retrieve company data. Examine and identify database structural necessities by evaluating client operations, applications, and programming.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.

Basic Qualifications

• Working python knowledge (or interest) and experience working with relational databases
• Working Terraform knowledge (or interest) and experience working with relational databases
• Experience or interest building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
• Experience or interest performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong analytical skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
• An interest in manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Experience or interest in/with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.

[madcharlie02]

Template to use

Post a Volunteer Opportunity

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Steps:

1. Get added to this board (reach out to Olivia or Bonnie to be added)
2. click on the plus sign at the top of the column to start a new card under the role type your project falls under
3. If the role type dosen't exist, please make a new column and add a description (they can be found here)
4. Use the following format (the character limit is 1024):

Project Name: [your project name replaces these brackets]

About the Project: [your brief description replaces these brackets]

Volunteer Opportunity: [your opportunity description replaces these brackets]

Duration:

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel

[Read more about the project]([your project home page on hackforla.org website goes here])

Resources:

[madcharlie02]

Draft for current open role

Post a Volunteer Opportunity

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Project Name: Incubator

About the Project: Incubator hosts budding Hackforla software on an AWS platform built with infrastructure as code.

Volunteer Opportunity: This team member will be responsible for developing data pipelines to clean, transform, and process data. They will ensure data integration between systems, including deployment of machine-learning pipelines where necessary.]

Duration: Open - ended

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: incubator
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Robin Glover, Charles Maduka

Read more about the project

Resources:

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Incubator hosts budding Hackforla software on an AWS platform built with infrastructure as code.

• Hack for LA not Hackforla
• budding is weird and untrue. Hosts dev environments and prod environments that are not live to customers yet.

This team member will be responsible for developing data pipelines to clean, transform, and process data. They will ensure data integration between systems, including deployment of machine-learning pipelines where necessary.

• We need someone knowledgeable enough about terraform to review current pull requests. If the team members wants to submit their own PRs too, that is fine, but we are open to a senior person who has a minimal amount of time to just review PRs

Slack channel link: incubator

• needs to be

  Slack channel link: [#incubator](https://hackforla.slack.com/archives/C064Y7SGF6X)

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Figure out if we have anything we want them to read other than the wiki and if so, add it to resources, otherwise, remove resources on the post.

[madcharlie02]

Draft for current open role

Post a Volunteer Opportunity

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Project Name: Incubator

About the Project: The incubator is our AWS hosting for projects at Hack for LA, before they graduate to a separate AWS EC instance.

Volunteer Opportunity: We’re looking for a senior or knowledgeable individual in terraform to review current pull requests. We’re open to individuals with enough experience and and minimal amount of time to review PRs.

Duration: Open - ended

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #incubator
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Robin Glover, Charles Maduka

Read more about the project

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

We have posted on the ops community of practice open roles board on 2024-02-26. This issue can move back to the icebox when we have filled the role. We could use multiple people.

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

@sudhara Please

• [ ] make the new issue
• [ ] put it in progress
• [ ] assign yourself
• [ ] add it to the open roles board
• [ ] make sure it showing up on the tab https://github.com/orgs/hackforla/projects/67/views/7. If not, add to the agenda for bonnie to fix
• [ ] add a dependency label to this issue, and the dependency is the new issue link
• [ ] move this issue to the icebox