Onboarding into the Cloud Platform Team

People Team

• Collect candidate on first day
• MOJ induction and tour
• SOP - (civil servant)
• Fieldglass - (contractor)

Service Desk

• Supply IT kit
• Lockers
• Google Account
• Relevant mailing-list

Sit down with DM

• Introduce new starter to team
• How our teams works (meetings, board, calendar)
• Working agreements
• Who we are
• Roles in team
• How does the team work internally - org chart
• Invite to slack channel(s): #cloud-platform and others mentioned in operational processes as appropriate
• Invite to mail group
• Invite to calendar
• Timesheets

Cloud Platform team

• What our team does (boundaries with our work and what service teams do)
• What Services do we look after and relationship with service teams
• High level Architecture
• What we are working on
• Share Hosting strategy for the department (where we are trying to get to)
• Deep dive
  • Introduce important repos
  • Runbooks
  • User guide
  • Main CP repo
    • Architecture
    • ADRs
  • environments repo
  • Concourse

Access

• Access to required Cloud Platform AWS account(s)
• Protect against accidentally pushing secrets to GitHub, using git-secrets

brew install git-secrets
git secrets --install ~/.git-templates/git-secrets
git config --global init.templateDir ~/.git-templates/git-secrets

• Github access - (to be done by new starter)
  • Explain github for RBAC
• Invite as an admin on justice-cloud-platform - Auth0
  • (Switch to ‘justice-cloud-platform tenant, then use the drop-down and select “Invite an admin”)
• New starter github user to be added to MOJ github organisation and WebOps team
• Add to MoJ 1Password
• Authenticate to live cluster
  • Add User to EKS Admins group
• Create and destroy test cluster
• Access to pagerduty
• Create GPG key
• Add GPG and SSH keys to github user account (if not already there)
• Add GPG key to git-crypt repositories
  • environments repo
  • infrastructure repo

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