Contract Duration: 14 months with possibility of extension
Base of assignment: Remote
Organizational Context:
Yayasan Peta Bencana (Disaster Map Foundation) is an Indonesian-based non-profit organization, developing open source platforms for real-time crowd-sourced hazard mapping. The foundation runs the award-winning project, PetaBencana.id; a free web-based platform that harnesses the use of social media during emergency events to gather confirmed on-the-ground updates from residents, and displays these reports alongside government agency validations on a publicly accessible map. Powered by CogniCity Open Source Software, the crowd-based logistics platform capable of collecting, organizing, and disseminating logistical information from both formal and informal sources. Since its debut in 2013 (as PetaJakarta.org), the PetaBencana.id platform has been used by millions of resident users to make time-critical decisions about safety and navigation during emergency events; it has also been adopted by the Indonesian National Emergency Management Agency (BNPB) to monitor disaster events, improve response times, and share time-critical emergency information with residents. The platform has enabled greater information sharing and data coordination among residents and government agencies, and was awarded the 2019 United Nations Public Service Award for ensuring integrated approaches in public sector institutions.
We are hiring a developer/engineer to work closely with our team in support of open source web mapping tools and services. This is a remote based, contract position for 14 months, with possible extension.
Yayasan Peta Bencana has a diverse technology stack and utilizes a number of cloud provider services. We’re looking for an experienced person who is well-versed in web GIS development and cloud-computing and is eager to develop a spatial data infrastructure with Yayasan Peta Bencana staff in an open source software environment.
Duties and Responsibilities:
● Administer, maintain, and support Yayasan Peta Bencana servers and website. This includes administering our cloud-providers like AWS ● Support manual and automated deployment of code to staging and production environments. ● Develop backup and monitoring of all services, including ensuring and improving the security of all Yayasan Peta Bencana applications and services. ● Provide technical guidance to existing and new Yayasan Peta Bencana software development projects ● Provide support to help debug and determine how to resolve issues for Yayasan Peta Bencana services through pull requests of patches and Github issue communication ● Create, test and enhance GIS operation, develop and administer web based application ● Develops and administers the permitting address and zoning databases ● Writes and maintains reports; programs database reports, forms and queries ● Prepares GIS databases, maps, database reports and specialized queries in support of various projects
Qualifications:
● Experience in cloud-computing architecture and administration (AWS EC2, S3, etc); significant experience with Linux administration and security including shell scripting, Docker, and Git ● Experience with JavaScript particularly with Node.js, Angular, Aurelia ● Experience developing modern web applications ● Considerable knowledge of GIS database design and structure ● Fluent in English
Application procedures:
Please submit your application to info@petabencana.id