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

[Ed James (Alt)]

Thanks for that. We ended up paying a top-rated DevOps consultant to do a technical interview for us (we know him personally). It cost us around £600 for two interviews, and we ended up hiring the one candidate. There were no recruiter fees so in the context of recruitment, it was a real bargain.  

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On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 at 16:40, Abhishek Parolkar wrote:

> 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
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> Its been working great till now!
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> Abhishek Parolkar
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> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com (mailto:sanelson at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > Hello all,
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> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com (mailto:rtacconi at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > Hi,
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> > > 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.  
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> > > 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.  
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> > > A couple of companies I would use are:
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> > > Bitfield for DevOps with Puppet.
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> > +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.  
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> > > Stephen Nelson Smith if you prefer Chef.
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> > No comment.
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> > > Another person is Patrick Debois, who's probably one of the best around.
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> > He's very good of course, but doesn't really consult in this manner any more.
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> > > Another guy using Puppet is Noel Sharpe who is more specialised in PHP but he is provides consultants through his company.
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> > I've worked with Noel, and know some of  the chaps in his team.  He's a smart guy.  
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> > > 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.
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> > Can't comment on Louis, but he always strikes me as a rare good egg in a field of noxious sulphur dioxide.
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