Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and how you ended up working in cloud infrastructure?
- Which infrastructure project are you most proud of, and what did it improve?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through an environment you built with Terraform or another IaC tool. How did you structure the code and manage state?
- How do you design a cloud network for a new application, including VPCs, subnets, and access control?
- Describe your approach to monitoring and alerting. How do you avoid alert fatigue?
- How do you manage secrets and IAM permissions across environments without granting excessive access?
- Tell us about a cloud cost problem you found and fixed. How did you identify the waste?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a production incident you handled. What was your role and what changed afterward?
- Describe a time you pushed developers to adopt a new workflow or tool. How did you win them over?
- How do you balance moving fast with keeping infrastructure changes safe and reviewable?
Problem-solving / case
- Our monthly cloud bill grew 40 percent in two months while traffic stayed flat. How would you investigate and cut it?
- An application must survive the loss of an entire availability zone with minimal downtime. How would you architect it?
- A team wants production database access to debug an urgent issue. How do you help them quickly without compromising security?
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