Infrastructure Engineer Interview Questions

Infrastructure Engineer Interview Questions

Infrastructure engineers are responsible for building and maintaining digital networks. In your interview for an infrastructure engineer position, be prepared to answer technical questions about IT systems and software. Interviewers may also ask non-technical questions to assess your communication and time management skills.

Top Infrastructure Engineer Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: How do you communicate complex issues to non-engineer colleagues or clients?

How to answer
How to answer: Interviewers use this question to assess your ability to communicate IT information to co-workers and clients from non-IT backgrounds. List and describe the verbal and written communication strategies you have used in the past to break down difficult concepts into understandable pieces.
Question 2

Question #2: What are the positive and negative aspects of working within an Agile construct?

How to answer
How to answer: Agile is one of the most popular project management and software development approaches used by IT teams. This question allows interviewers to assess your understanding of the Agile environment as well as your approach to teamwork and interpersonal communication. If possible, use previous work experience to elaborate on the benefits and issues you have experienced working within an Agile environment.
Question 3

Question #3: How do you produce quality work when you have several projects to complete?

How to answer
How to answer: Infrastructure engineers must juggle all of their projects while simultaneously dealing with infrastructure issues requiring immediate attention. Interviewers use this question to assess your time-management skills and your ability to work well under pressure. List and discuss planning tools you use on the job and how you handle emergency issues.

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Describe to me, what is DevOps? Tell me how private DNS resolution works from on-prem and Azure. How would you design a resilient application solution. Tell me the difference between availability sets and availability zones. How can you decrease latency with an application design and infrastructure.
Nov 24, 2022

Describe to me, what is DevOps? Tell me how private DNS resolution works from on-prem and Azure. How would you design a resilient application solution. Tell me the difference between availability sets and availability zones. How can you decrease latency with an application design and infrastructure.

Details and knowledge regarding various infrastructure components , lifecycle , management , monitoring , language abilities , debugging skills , architecting skills and broad level architecture understanding . Details and emphasis on networking and storage systems , defense and firewall.
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Sep 8, 2020

Details and knowledge regarding various infrastructure components , lifecycle , management , monitoring , language abilities , debugging skills , architecting skills and broad level architecture understanding . Details and emphasis on networking and storage systems , defense and firewall.

what sort of challenges are you looking for? Moving to your other previous experience what platforms where you using? Have you monitoring end-user devices, such as point of sales devices? can you give me an example of a major outage you may had experices at that time? how was it reported, what was the impact, what was the resolutions steps taken was there a prm perfomed after that. and what was the root cause From a people management perspective the role of a manger get pretty much repetitive how do you motive people to stay active and to stay engaged? so people do to fall in that routen and get bored what about difficult individuals, as you stated that they may be diffcult to deal with, they have their own objectives, they want to do things their way and as a manager you cannot allow that have you had an example of an employee that you need to put on performance improvment or how will you deal with such a suitation. talking about your personal achievements, have you had any kind of or somthing that was dramatic enough that may have happened to you to change your preseption or your career? within your career, what was your biggest achievements? or something that you are most proud of for your self or prove to your self that you achieve something that you couldnt expect to have archieved? if you could think of your dream job and it doesnt have to be in the IT field or financial field, what would you rather be doing it could be anything or everthing? assuming you will be giving this position, you will be the Lead Infrastructure Sr. Manager - Operations Manager manger, after some time, if you think about your career within the time frame of 3 or 5 years, what will be your next steps?
Feb 19, 2018

what sort of challenges are you looking for? Moving to your other previous experience what platforms where you using? Have you monitoring end-user devices, such as point of sales devices? can you give me an example of a major outage you may had experices at that time? how was it reported, what was the impact, what was the resolutions steps taken was there a prm perfomed after that. and what was the root cause From a people management perspective the role of a manger get pretty much repetitive how do you motive people to stay active and to stay engaged? so people do to fall in that routen and get bored what about difficult individuals, as you stated that they may be diffcult to deal with, they have their own objectives, they want to do things their way and as a manager you cannot allow that have you had an example of an employee that you need to put on performance improvment or how will you deal with such a suitation. talking about your personal achievements, have you had any kind of or somthing that was dramatic enough that may have happened to you to change your preseption or your career? within your career, what was your biggest achievements? or something that you are most proud of for your self or prove to your self that you achieve something that you couldnt expect to have archieved? if you could think of your dream job and it doesnt have to be in the IT field or financial field, what would you rather be doing it could be anything or everthing? assuming you will be giving this position, you will be the Lead Infrastructure Sr. Manager - Operations Manager manger, after some time, if you think about your career within the time frame of 3 or 5 years, what will be your next steps?

The role you have applied for, doesnt require you to be an expert in each technology either its mainframe, servers or win-tel which of theses technology do you feel comfortable with it? What is the different between a layer 2 and layer 3 switch? what about wintel, have you had any experience with wintel? what about unix, have you had any experience with unix? mainframe platform, have you had any experience with mainframe? do you know what Lpar is or PIX, does it ring a bell? assuming that you will be giving this position, what will be your biggest challenges for you? what resources do you think you will need, to be able to stay on-top of everything? assuming you have a major incident running and you have all teams engaged and SMEs and they are all working on the incidents for example its a P1, and you think the teams are not heading in the right directions to the resolution and they are working to resolve the P1 but you got a better idea that will probably restore the service back to normal and we should be doing something differently how would you approach this suitation? ok moving to people management, do you have an example of an employee who was kind of diffcult of challenging and you were mentoring in the past and then he changed his approached because he was promted, assuming that you will be giving this position, how soon can you start?
Feb 19, 2018

The role you have applied for, doesnt require you to be an expert in each technology either its mainframe, servers or win-tel which of theses technology do you feel comfortable with it? What is the different between a layer 2 and layer 3 switch? what about wintel, have you had any experience with wintel? what about unix, have you had any experience with unix? mainframe platform, have you had any experience with mainframe? do you know what Lpar is or PIX, does it ring a bell? assuming that you will be giving this position, what will be your biggest challenges for you? what resources do you think you will need, to be able to stay on-top of everything? assuming you have a major incident running and you have all teams engaged and SMEs and they are all working on the incidents for example its a P1, and you think the teams are not heading in the right directions to the resolution and they are working to resolve the P1 but you got a better idea that will probably restore the service back to normal and we should be doing something differently how would you approach this suitation? ok moving to people management, do you have an example of an employee who was kind of diffcult of challenging and you were mentoring in the past and then he changed his approached because he was promted, assuming that you will be giving this position, how soon can you start?

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