Devops Engineer Interviews

Devops Engineer Interview Questions

"DevOps is a quickly growing space for tech companies. Employers hiring DevOps engineers are looking for candidates with strong programming abilities, a knowledge of re-engineering processes, and great communication skills to fast-track projects between IT professionals and software engineers. Expect to answer various technical questions that will evaluate your knowledge of tech tools and processes such as HTTP. Experience in software engineering or a related field is expected."

Top DevOps Engineer Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: What are the top DevOps tools, and which ones have you worked with before?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question is designed to showcase your knowledge and experience with a variety of available DevOps tools. Share any tools you have specific experience with and how you've used them to develop good quality software. If you have generalized knowledge of many tools, you can easily speak to how to use them. If you have limited experience with DevOps tools, you can share that you specialize in those tools and how you've used them.
Question 2

Question #2: What is the need for DevOps?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question allows you to demonstrate and communicate your knowledge of the advantages of using DevOps. This question also lets you share examples of companies who have used DevOps to achieve levels of performance that far exceeded expectations. You can attest to the benefits of DevOps and how these companies need it to continue to expand.
Question 3

Question #3: What are the most important things that DevOps help achieve?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question is used to understand your perception of what is important when it comes to DevOps. Share the positive effects of DevOps and its relation to customer satisfaction, clearer communication, and better collaboration. When possible, share examples from your previous experience that demonstrate these important aspects of DevOps.

13,151 devops engineer interview questions shared by candidates

Using draw.io or a similar program, diagram a....scalable and reliable solution....Your solution should encompass...best practices...should focus on high availability using whichever services or architecture you think would enable a viable solution. Be prepared to walk us through your planned solution and explain the selected design choices including pros and cons and potential alternatives. We will want to know you’ve thought it through and understand your proposal thoroughly.
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Senior Software Engineer (DevOps)

Interviewed at Refinery29

3.1
Mar 6, 2019

Using draw.io or a similar program, diagram a....scalable and reliable solution....Your solution should encompass...best practices...should focus on high availability using whichever services or architecture you think would enable a viable solution. Be prepared to walk us through your planned solution and explain the selected design choices including pros and cons and potential alternatives. We will want to know you’ve thought it through and understand your proposal thoroughly.

q AWS/DevOps Engineer over 4 years of professional Experience dedicated to automation and optimization. Understands and manages the space between operations and development to quickly deliver code to customers. Has experience with the Cloud, as well as DevOps automation development for Linux systems. Seeking a position in AWS/ DevOps to contribute my technical Skills
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Devops Engineer

Interviewed at Big It Solutions

3.5
Mar 18, 2019

q AWS/DevOps Engineer over 4 years of professional Experience dedicated to automation and optimization. Understands and manages the space between operations and development to quickly deliver code to customers. Has experience with the Cloud, as well as DevOps automation development for Linux systems. Seeking a position in AWS/ DevOps to contribute my technical Skills

Some of the questions I can remember, although not exact, but close :- 1. Here is data in some format state=on format=abcd;status=xyz state=on format=mnop;status=rtu .... n Re-arrange data through bash script in CSV format in the following manner state is on, format is abcd, status is xyz state is on format is mnop, status is rtu .... n 2. Which application runs on the following ports 1) port 20 2) port 22 3) port 25 4) port 53 3. A file abcd.txt is 5.1 mb in size. A hard link with name xyz.txt is created on that file and following is it's du -sh output # du -sh 5.1mb file1 What will be the size of xyz.txt? If we delete abcd.txt, now what will be the size of xyz.txt and will it exist? 4. /etc/passwd has the following entries :- ubuntu:ubuntu /bin/bash user:user /bin/bash /home/user Use shell command to display only the hostname and their home directories. 5. How will you recursively delete "*.bat" from current directory and sub-directories in single bash command? 6. egrep "*.bak" | find . -name "*.bak" {$find . -name "*.bak"} {} \. Explain what this command is doing 7. What is the difference between sudo and sudo -E?
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DevOps Engineer

Interviewed at TravelTriangle

4
Feb 9, 2019

Some of the questions I can remember, although not exact, but close :- 1. Here is data in some format state=on format=abcd;status=xyz state=on format=mnop;status=rtu .... n Re-arrange data through bash script in CSV format in the following manner state is on, format is abcd, status is xyz state is on format is mnop, status is rtu .... n 2. Which application runs on the following ports 1) port 20 2) port 22 3) port 25 4) port 53 3. A file abcd.txt is 5.1 mb in size. A hard link with name xyz.txt is created on that file and following is it's du -sh output # du -sh 5.1mb file1 What will be the size of xyz.txt? If we delete abcd.txt, now what will be the size of xyz.txt and will it exist? 4. /etc/passwd has the following entries :- ubuntu:ubuntu /bin/bash user:user /bin/bash /home/user Use shell command to display only the hostname and their home directories. 5. How will you recursively delete "*.bat" from current directory and sub-directories in single bash command? 6. egrep "*.bak" | find . -name "*.bak" {$find . -name "*.bak"} {} \. Explain what this command is doing 7. What is the difference between sudo and sudo -E?

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