Devops Engineer Interview Questions

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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.

PowerDay: 1. First Interview: a. Find errors in Dockerfile, suggest changes b. Write code to get data from logs file: ..1. Amount of logs ..2. Errors and what can be learned from them ..3. All prices for a specific month
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Lead DevOps Engineer

Interviewed at Capital One

5
May 11, 2023

PowerDay: 1. First Interview: a. Find errors in Dockerfile, suggest changes b. Write code to get data from logs file: ..1. Amount of logs ..2. Errors and what can be learned from them ..3. All prices for a specific month

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