[LRUG] How do you recruit/interview for a Dev Ops role?

[Abhishek Parolkar]

Hey There!,
  I might be a bit late on this thread but as it might be useful in this
context.  I use this piece of opensource software to screen DevOps/Sysadmin
candidate in kinda  automated way using rspec to define the problem and
puppet to provision the environment
https://github.com/zalora/automated_sysadmin_screen_test

Its been working great till now!

--
Abhishek Parolkar
http://www.parolkar.com


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith
<sanelson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would ask the candidate to deploy a Rails app to AWS using Chef of
>> Puppet. Then I would like to know how do they gather all the logs, if they
>> use Graylog2 or Splunk. Then if they have any experience to integrate a CI
>> server with github, code climate, a code review system see Gerrit), project
>> management system (like Pivotal Tracker). Probably the most tricky bit
>> would be to see how the candidate can find and fix issues, but your sys
>> admin could help you in this.
>>
>> Another important thing is how the candidate can monitor your apps (New
>> Relic, Munin, Nagios etc...).
>>
>
> This is all super advice.  The best way to find someone who can work with
> you is to get them to work with you.  Give them a real task, and some
> success criteria, and get them to do it.  Pay them for their time.  I've
> done this dozens of times with excellent results.
>
>
>
>> A couple of companies I would use are:
>>
>> Bitfield for DevOps with Puppet.
>>
>
> +1 I've worked with John on and off for years; He's one of the very best
> around.  If you use Puppet, look no further.
>
>
>> Stephen Nelson Smith if you prefer Chef.
>>
>
> No comment.
>
>
>> Another person is Patrick Debois, who's probably one of the best around.
>>
>
> He's very good of course, but doesn't really consult in this manner any
> more.
>
>
>>  Another guy using Puppet is Noel Sharpe who is more specialised in PHP
>> but he is provides consultants through his company.
>>
>
> I've worked with Noel, and know some of  the chaps in his team.  He's a
> smart guy.
>
>
>> Louis is a recruiter I would use, if you want to follow the recruiter
>> path. Disclaimer: I have worked on contracts provided both by Noel and
>> Louis.
>>
>
> Can't comment on Louis, but he always strikes me as a rare good egg in a
> field of noxious sulphur dioxide.
>
> S.
>
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