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Job Summary :

At the Food Bank, we are activating the power of community to achieve lasting solutions to hunger and its root causes. We are seeking a passionate, skilled IT Intern to help us improve our operational efficiencies. The IT Intern role will be responsible, under the supervision of the Director of Applications, to refactor a core application at the Food Bank written in Python, to make it easier to support and push out releases. This hands-on role will be evaluating and refactoring existing code to remove embedded runtime dependencies, generalize hard-coded logic, and develop an API to expose key functionality. They will also be incorporating DevOps and Python packaging leading practices into the development and release lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities: 

Software Development and packaging

• Work with the Director of Applications to evaluate the current ‘Advance Choice’ application codebase and DevOps pipelines, and 
• Identify improvements to make the application more resilient and flexible;
• prioritize improvements;
• develop an action plan
• Develop planned changes;
• Develop unit tests for the changes;
• Follow secure and clean coding practices;
• Follow code documentation practices as outlined by the Director of Applications;
• Update the application runbook with relevant changes from the improvements incorporated into the application and development and release lifecycle;
• Support system and user acceptance testing of the changes;
• Work with the Director of Applications to implement and release changes to the ‘Advance Choice’ application and its development and release lifecycle.

Qualifications:

• Python experience (v 3.10+);
• Familiarity with functional programming and unit testing;
• Familiarity with the OpenAPI specification;
• Familiarity with DevOps concepts;
• Familiarity with Microsoft VS code or Visual Studio;
• Familiarity with OWASP secure coding practices;
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure is preferred, but not required.

Duration of Internship: Approx. 2-3 months. 

Disclaimer

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