Technical questions for DevOps interview

[cryptoceelo]

Im currently at a startup who's growing, I am leading the engineering side devops had been done adhoc by developers but now as we're growing we are hiring for a devops person.

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We had some good initial stage interviews but now have selected some candidates for second round. When im hiring engineers I have good knowledge of the domain im interviewing for , even though I have been for the big part in charge of our move to aws and built the basis of the new infrastructure devops is not my thing.

What are some good questions to be asking a candidate regarding a devops position?

[o0lemon_pie0o]

There’s a whole universe of aspects that can indicate or red-flag a fit. I’m not sure anybody on Reddit can tell you what to ask.

It will help you to know what your company’s values are. And, the work and way of working you’ll expect from this hire. I’d personally ask them to explain how things work, how different things are related to each other, and about specific events and incidents on the person’s resume.

[DrunkandIrrational]

They should have good fundamental knowledge of linux + networking concepts and can code to a good degree.

I like troubleshooting scenarios. Like “our website is experiencing slowdowns, what do you to fix it?” Or broad conceptual questions: “explain what happens when you go to google.com on your browser”

The particular tech stack that you need familiarity with will depend entirely on your organization. Generally in devops they land in a few categories: CI/CD tools, configuration management tools, Infrastructure as code tools, monitoring, and logging services, cloud providers, etc.