BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//OpenACalendar//NONSGML OpenACalendar//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Edinburgh DevOps Meetup: EDinburgh Devops\, Nov 14th - Open Te ch Calendar BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8590@otc.opentechcalendar.co.uk URL:https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/8590-edinburgh-devops-nov-14th SUMMARY:Edinburgh DevOps Meetup: EDinburgh Devops\, Nov 14th DESCRIPTION:Doors open 6.15pm\nFirst speaker 7.00pm\nShort Break 7.50pm\nSe cond speaker 8.00pm\nPost event Drinks - Apothocary 9.00pm\n\n# Talk 1 - H ow to hire and nurture your DevOps Talent - Connor Reid\n\nEffective hirin g is a significant challenge when attempting to achieve DevOps. Being able to build a great team is key to DevOps culture and the costs of poor hiri ng can be high.\n\nHaving spent the past seven years focusing on how to he lp organisations facilitate effective DevOps\, I've gained a few battle sc ars along the way. In this talk\, we will look at the importance of great hiring\, my learnings on how to accurately attract the right people and ho w to create a sense of belonging within an organisation.\n\nWe will discus s how to hire for empathy\, efficient ways to manage a DevOps hiring proce ss and how to then ensure you retain your top engineering talent.\n\nConno r looks after the growth of ECS Digital in Scotland. As their inaugural hi re\, Connor joined to build a greenfield technology practice to deliver De vOps to a portfolio of varied clients.\n\nConnor has 7 years' experience b uilding capability squads to help organisations achieve DevOps culture. Co nnor also organises the DevOps Playground\, a monthly\, hands on meetup wh ere software doesn't stand still\, with over 3500 members.\n\nYou can find Connor talking about technology on twitter\, blogging or running the DevO ps Playground in Edinburgh and London. Connor believes a barrier free exch ange of innovation and one of his largest professional goals is to become a developer of people.\n\n# Talk 2 - Google Cloud Security for Build and T esting - Alan Todd and Jared Xu\n\nLike many others\, we have recently beg un transitioning a number of on-prem systems to a cloud environment. The n ew-found flexibility and power that cloud computing give us also shifts mu ch of the onus and responsibility for security to us since we are now mana ging aspects of the system that were handled by dedicated infrastructure e ngineers. That's why we've been implementing security practices and harden ing on the google cloud platform from the grass-roots level upwards. We wi ll talk about how we implemented automated image hardening\, monitoring\, and alerts\, secrets management\, setting up cloud IAM roles\, network man agement\, designing to minimise the attack surface and will touch on some further practices such as anomaly detection\, using threat modelling and c ontainer image signing.\n\nAlan is currently working as a Build and Contin uous Delivery Engineer at NCR Edinburgh. He studied chemistry at Glasgow U niversity before going on to do a Ph.D. in X-ray crystallography at Readin g University\, following this he worked as part postdoctoral researcher an d part Linux systems administrator in a Cancer Research UK research group. His next role was as a full-time Linux systems administrator for an HPC f acility in a scientific research environment at Guy's Hospital in London w here he found himself enjoying finding ways to automate things for himself and the users.\n\nJared is working together with Alan in the Build and CI /CD team at NCR Edinburgh. He has a Mater's Degree in Artificial Intellige nce from Edinburgh University. Before joining NCR\, he was working in role s such as Continuous Integration\, Test Automation in Cisco. He is passion ate about exploring all the modern technologies\, methodologies and tools to make software engineering a bit more efficient\, reliable and less manu al. Meanwhile\, he is also interested in applying machine learning\, big d ata into DevOps\, network security and explores to what extent the state-o f-the-art techniques can help in those areas.\nhttps://opentechcalendar.co .uk/event/8590-edinburgh-devops-nov-14th\nPowered by Open Tech Calendar X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Doors open 6.15pm
First spea
ker 7.00pm
Short Break 7.50pm
Second speaker 8.00pm
Post event Dr
inks - Apothocary 9.00pm
# Talk 1 - How to hire and nurture your De
vOps Talent - Connor Reid
Effective hiring is a significant challen
ge when attempting to achieve DevOps. Being able to build a great team is
key to DevOps culture and the costs of poor hiring can be high.
Hav
ing spent the past seven years focusing on how to help organisations facil
itate effective DevOps\, I&rsquo\;ve gained a few battle scars along the w
ay. In this talk\, we will look at the importance of great hiring\, my lea
rnings on how to accurately attract the right people and how to create a s
ense of belonging within an organisation.
We will discuss how to hi
re for empathy\, efficient ways to manage a DevOps hiring process and how
to then ensure you retain your top engineering talent.
Connor looks
after the growth of ECS Digital in Scotland. As their inaugural hire\, Co
nnor joined to build a greenfield technology practice to deliver DevOps to
a portfolio of varied clients.
Connor has 7 years&rsquo\; experien
ce building capability squads to help organisations achieve DevOps culture
. Connor also organises the DevOps Playground\, a monthly\, hands on meetu
p where software doesn&rsquo\;t stand still\, with over 3500 members.
<
br>You can find Connor talking about technology on twitter\, blogging or r
unning the DevOps Playground in Edinburgh and London. Connor believes a ba
rrier free exchange of innovation and one of his largest professional goal
s is to become a developer of people.
# Talk 2 - Google Cloud Secur
ity for Build and Testing - Alan Todd and Jared Xu
Like many others
\, we have recently begun transitioning a number of on-prem systems to a c
loud environment. The new-found flexibility and power that cloud computing
give us also shifts much of the onus and responsibility for security to u
s since we are now managing aspects of the system that were handled by ded
icated infrastructure engineers. That's why we've been implementing securi
ty practices and hardening on the google cloud platform from the grass-roo
ts level upwards. We will talk about how we implemented automated image ha
rdening\, monitoring\, and alerts\, secrets management\, setting up cloud
IAM roles\, network management\, designing to minimise the attack surface
and will touch on some further practices such as anomaly detection\, using
threat modelling and container image signing.
Alan is currently wo
rking as a Build and Continuous Delivery Engineer at NCR Edinburgh. He stu
died chemistry at Glasgow University before going on to do a Ph.D. in X-ra
y crystallography at Reading University\, following this he worked as part
postdoctoral researcher and part Linux systems administrator in a Cancer
Research UK research group. His next role was as a full-time Linux systems
administrator for an HPC facility in a scientific research environment at
Guy's Hospital in London where he found himself enjoying finding ways to
automate things for himself and the users.
Jared is working togethe
r with Alan in the Build and CI/CD team at NCR Edinburgh. He has a Mater's
Degree in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh University. Before joini
ng NCR\, he was working in roles such as Continuous Integration\, Test Aut
omation in Cisco. He is passionate about exploring all the modern technolo
gies\, methodologies and tools to make software engineering a bit more eff
icient\, reliable and less manual. Meanwhile\, he is also interested in ap
plying machine learning\, big data into DevOps\, network security and expl
ores to what extent the state-of-the-art techniques can help in those area
s.
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