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"DevOps is a quickly growing space for tech companies. Employers hiring DevOps engineers are looking for candidates with strong programming abilities, a knowledge of re-engineering processes, and great communication skills to fast-track projects between IT professionals and software engineers. Expect to answer various technical questions that will evaluate your knowledge of tech tools and processes such as HTTP. Experience in software engineering or a related field is expected."

Top DevOps Engineer Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: What are the top DevOps tools, and which ones have you worked with before?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question is designed to showcase your knowledge and experience with a variety of available DevOps tools. Share any tools you have specific experience with and how you've used them to develop good quality software. If you have generalized knowledge of many tools, you can easily speak to how to use them. If you have limited experience with DevOps tools, you can share that you specialize in those tools and how you've used them.
Question 2

Question #2: What is the need for DevOps?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question allows you to demonstrate and communicate your knowledge of the advantages of using DevOps. This question also lets you share examples of companies who have used DevOps to achieve levels of performance that far exceeded expectations. You can attest to the benefits of DevOps and how these companies need it to continue to expand.
Question 3

Question #3: What are the most important things that DevOps help achieve?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question is used to understand your perception of what is important when it comes to DevOps. Share the positive effects of DevOps and its relation to customer satisfaction, clearer communication, and better collaboration. When possible, share examples from your previous experience that demonstrate these important aspects of DevOps.

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The Challenge Create an internet-facing web service accepting a single word and deriving all possible anagrams. Guidelines 1. Base the solution on a platform and language you are familiar with. 2. Ensure that the solution is developed using a source control system. 3. Provide adequate tests demonstrating that the solution is complete and correct. 4. Utilize a mechanism for deploying the solution to the platform. 5. Confirm that the solution is secured appropriately for public consumption. Follow-Up Discussion Items As part of the solution review, we’ll discuss the following items: 1. A minor change in requirements will be proposed. Make the necessary changes, check-in the code and deploy. 2. Describe how this solution might be monitored on a production platform, what are the key items to track? 3. Your solution receives a ‘social media hug’ resulting in a sudden increase in utilization, how might you respond to this situation?
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Senior DevOps Engineer

Interviewed at AIR MILES

3.4★
Apr 2, 2020

The Challenge Create an internet-facing web service accepting a single word and deriving all possible anagrams. Guidelines 1. Base the solution on a platform and language you are familiar with. 2. Ensure that the solution is developed using a source control system. 3. Provide adequate tests demonstrating that the solution is complete and correct. 4. Utilize a mechanism for deploying the solution to the platform. 5. Confirm that the solution is secured appropriately for public consumption. Follow-Up Discussion Items As part of the solution review, we’ll discuss the following items: 1. A minor change in requirements will be proposed. Make the necessary changes, check-in the code and deploy. 2. Describe how this solution might be monitored on a production platform, what are the key items to track? 3. Your solution receives a ‘social media hug’ resulting in a sudden increase in utilization, how might you respond to this situation?

In order to know my thought process I was asked to design the infrastructure for a well stated problem with specific defined services. Taking into account things like architecture design, container orchestration decisions, managed services interoperability, HA, performance and single points of failure, observability and alternative infra stacks.
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Senior DevOps Engineer

Interviewed at Belvo

4.6★
Dec 15, 2020

In order to know my thought process I was asked to design the infrastructure for a well stated problem with specific defined services. Taking into account things like architecture design, container orchestration decisions, managed services interoperability, HA, performance and single points of failure, observability and alternative infra stacks.

Part 2 Create a Powershell script, newGceInstance.ps1 which will do the following: Create a new GCE instance from the Windows 2012 R2 base Image Create a local admin account on the server Create a remote powershell session to the instance Copy svrInfo.ps1 from your local machine onto the instance Run the svrInfo.ps1 script on the instance and write the output to the user's screen Configure a scheduled task on the instance which will run svrInfo.ps1 on server startup and direct output to a local text file. Close the Remote PS session and write a message to the user’s console indicating that the script completed successfully. This script must take the following parameters from the user: InstanceName - Name of the GCE instance to create GceProject - Name of the GCP project where the instance is created GceZone - Name of the GCP zone where the instance is created Script - Location of svrInfo.ps1 on the user’s local machine The script should gracefully fail and output a clear message to the user in the event that the instance already exists in the project.
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Devops Engineer

Interviewed at Geotab

3.7★
Dec 17, 2018

Part 2 Create a Powershell script, newGceInstance.ps1 which will do the following: Create a new GCE instance from the Windows 2012 R2 base Image Create a local admin account on the server Create a remote powershell session to the instance Copy svrInfo.ps1 from your local machine onto the instance Run the svrInfo.ps1 script on the instance and write the output to the user's screen Configure a scheduled task on the instance which will run svrInfo.ps1 on server startup and direct output to a local text file. Close the Remote PS session and write a message to the user’s console indicating that the script completed successfully. This script must take the following parameters from the user: InstanceName - Name of the GCE instance to create GceProject - Name of the GCP project where the instance is created GceZone - Name of the GCP zone where the instance is created Script - Location of svrInfo.ps1 on the user’s local machine The script should gracefully fail and output a clear message to the user in the event that the instance already exists in the project.

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