Lead Devops Engineer Interview Questions

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In the first stage, the recruiter asked about the nature of my work at my current job and why I want to change job. In the second part, two technical recruiters conducted an interview with me, posing technical questions for about an hour, mainly centered around Azure.
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Devops Engineer

Interviewed at EcoVadis

3.7
Jul 8, 2023

In the first stage, the recruiter asked about the nature of my work at my current job and why I want to change job. In the second part, two technical recruiters conducted an interview with me, posing technical questions for about an hour, mainly centered around Azure.

1. Round.) Databases(MongoDB, RDS) -- How would you optimize the retrieving of data from MongoDB? What if data retrieval is slow, what would you do to make it happen faster? Then, there were live scenario based questions. What if a guy comes to you and tell you that Oyo app is not working? What would you do, how would you make ensure everything is working correctly? Monitoring/Alerting: As I had worked on NewRelic, so the interviewer asked me about latency/throughput. Then there was a scripting round. I was asked to write a script to calculate average response time which appear in nginx logs. In AWS, they asked me Load Balancer in deep.(ELB, HAproxy). In Linux, they asked me about LVM. Questions related to Agile methodology were also asked. What's the difference between Agile approach and normal software development cycle.
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Devops Engineer

Interviewed at OYO

3.3
Mar 7, 2018

1. Round.) Databases(MongoDB, RDS) -- How would you optimize the retrieving of data from MongoDB? What if data retrieval is slow, what would you do to make it happen faster? Then, there were live scenario based questions. What if a guy comes to you and tell you that Oyo app is not working? What would you do, how would you make ensure everything is working correctly? Monitoring/Alerting: As I had worked on NewRelic, so the interviewer asked me about latency/throughput. Then there was a scripting round. I was asked to write a script to calculate average response time which appear in nginx logs. In AWS, they asked me Load Balancer in deep.(ELB, HAproxy). In Linux, they asked me about LVM. Questions related to Agile methodology were also asked. What's the difference between Agile approach and normal software development cycle.

First question was when you write www.google.com on the browser what happens in the background to get the webpage you are seeing on your browser? docker questions, terraform questions, AWS questions, Ansible Questions
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AWS/DevOps Engineer

Interviewed at Capgemini Invent

3.6
Oct 21, 2023

First question was when you write www.google.com on the browser what happens in the background to get the webpage you are seeing on your browser? docker questions, terraform questions, AWS questions, Ansible Questions

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