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DevOps / SRE interview questions
Use these to evaluate a DevOps or SRE candidate on automation, reliability, and how they think about systems under failure.
11 questions across 4 stages.
Phone screen
- 1Describe your current infrastructure and your role in it.
- 2What's your philosophy on infrastructure as code?
- 3How do you measure the reliability of a service?
Technical
- 1Walk me through what happens when you deploy a change to production.
- 2How do you design alerting that's actionable and not noisy?
- 3What's your approach to secrets management and least privilege?
- 4How would you set up CI/CD for a team shipping multiple times a day?
Behavioral
- 1Tell me about the worst incident you've handled. What did you change afterward?
- 2How do you balance reliability work against feature pressure?
Situational
- 1Error rates spike right after a deploy. Walk me through your first 10 minutes.
- 2Cloud costs doubled this month. How do you find and fix the cause?
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