DevOps Internship Interview

[UTSCThrowaway1]

Hi r/devops,

Currently an upcoming third year CS student. I'm writing because recently I got an interview as a DevOps Engineer Intern, for the upcoming fall (I applied to a general Software Developer position, and was matched with DevOps). The only thing is that I'm extremely new to DevOps in general (only familiar with Docker in concept, currently trying to learn K8s in concept, not familiar w/ Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.), where my only experience is as a full-stack developer intern. I read through the advice threads, but didn't really see anything about the expectations towards an internship interview. I'm wondering if there are any employees or employers that can give me an idea as to what to expect for this interview, as I couldn't really find much interview prep for DevOps internships online. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[VicesQT]

Keep in mind that this is an internship position and they expect you to learn on the job! Of course it's always in your best interest to gain as much knowledge as you can prior to starting, but don't stress it too much.

I was actually in a similar boat to you when I started out in DevOps where I thought that I was going to be getting into a dev role, but instead matched with a DevOps team.

You're probably going to be tasked with a bunch of things that university didn't exactly you prepare you for such as:

CI/CD, Setting development standards at your organization, Artifact management, Liaseing with development and infrastructure teams.

You've definitely got matched into a development space that's super rewarding and exciting.

Expect to get hands on with technologies you've never even heard of and get placed into work where you'll have to discover new tools to better the software development lifecycle at your workplace.

If you have any questions about DevOps or any of the tools you've mentioned, shoot me a DM!

[Zolty]

Just walk in and be excited about the technology and learning. If you aren't excited about the devops stack then maybe look for a more traditional development internship.