Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and the platforms you have run?
- What does a good deployment process look like to you?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through a CI/CD pipeline you built. What made it fast and safe?
- How do you structure Terraform or other IaC for multiple environments?
- Describe your approach to monitoring: what do you alert on and what do you deliberately not?
- How do you manage secrets across environments and pipelines?
- Tell us about a cloud cost problem you found and fixed.
Behavioural & culture fit
- Describe the worst outage you have handled. What was your role, and what changed afterwards?
- How do you spread operational ownership to developers instead of becoming the bottleneck?
- Tell us about a time you automated away a task everyone had accepted as manual.
Problem-solving / case
- Deployments started failing intermittently this morning with no code changes. How do you investigate?
- The API's p99 latency doubled after a release that passed all checks. Walk us through your response.
- Leadership wants deployment frequency to go from weekly to daily without more incidents. What is your plan?
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