Nail Your DevOps Interview

Learn what it takes to shine in a DevOps job interview. Get tips for answering common interview questions accurately and concisely.

Introduction

• Transform your career in DevOps
• What you should know
• DevOps vs. SRE vs. automation engineer

1. Interview Prep

• Preparing for the interview
• Researching the opportunity
• Getting DevOps experience
• Certifications
• Methods for answering questions

2. DevOps Business Practices Questions

• Defining DevOps
• The DevOps lifecycle
• Lean vs. agile vs. DevOps
• CI/CD
• Configuration management
• Monitoring and alerting
• Testing
• Challenge
• Solution

3. Common DevOps Skills

• Operating systems
• Command line tools
• Scripting and programming
• Software version control
• Troubleshooting
• Incident management
• Security

4. Cloud Services Questions

• Cloud services and their benefits
• Architecting cloud solutions
• Infrastructure as Code

5. Applications and Services Questions

• Web servers
• Databases
• Containers
• Challenge
• Solution

6. Wrapping Up Your Interview

• Asking questions
• Following up

Conclusion

• Next steps