Sre Interview Questions

1,931 sre interview questions shared by candidates

Site Reliability Engineers tend to span a lot of areas in their work, from operations to software development, from systems operations to documentation and planning. Which areas of the job do you really enjoy? Which do you wish you didn’t have to do as much? Which do you feel particularly strong in? Which areas are you hoping to grow more in in your next role? Can you tell us about a time you had to troubleshoot a particularly confounding issue? What are your favorite technologies/SaaS/languages that you’ve worked with over the years? Which are your least favorite? Why?
avatar

SRE

Interviewed at Knack

3.2
Sep 13, 2022

Site Reliability Engineers tend to span a lot of areas in their work, from operations to software development, from systems operations to documentation and planning. Which areas of the job do you really enjoy? Which do you wish you didn’t have to do as much? Which do you feel particularly strong in? Which areas are you hoping to grow more in in your next role? Can you tell us about a time you had to troubleshoot a particularly confounding issue? What are your favorite technologies/SaaS/languages that you’ve worked with over the years? Which are your least favorite? Why?

Round 1 HR: (1 person ) 30 min Q: Tell me about yourself Q: Linux commands questions like grep, awk, sed Q: Have you worked on on-prem VM's ? Q: What databases have you worked on? Q: Most challenging project and how you helped? Q: Do you know Jenkins and scripting in Groovy? Q: What language do you usually script in: python, bash, or both? Q: How would you check if the VM is down? Q: How to check if the disk space is running out? What steps will you take to rectify it? Q: Difference between inode and notify Round 2 : Take home Coding assignment: Q: Given a string like 'aaabccdee', return count of characters to remove to make it an string with all chars having even frequency Q: Given an array with days in it, write a function that takes a day and n as an input and returns the day that's n days from day. eg: ('wed', 3)=> sat Q: Given a file structure for music, images, videos arrange the extensions of file in their respective dir. eg : .jpg in images folder, .mp3 in music, .avi in videos folder. Round 3: Group Interview: (2 people): 90min Q: Command to see services running on VM Q: How would you manage certificates on VM? Q: What are docker layers? Q: What is docker multistage? Q: Difference between NodePort and ClusterIP? Q: How to check if the Apache service is running? Q: How did you migrate the Certificate? ( eg : Godaddy to ACM) Q: Where are the certificates stored? Q: Do you know certificate architecture in general? Explain it. Q: Explain how the client authenticates with a server? Q: Terraform vs Ansible ? Why did you choose Terraform? Q: Live coding: Fibonacci series for first 30 numbers. Any language.
avatar

Intermediate DevOps/SRE Engineer (Linux)

Interviewed at Global Relay

2.5
Jan 25, 2023

Round 1 HR: (1 person ) 30 min Q: Tell me about yourself Q: Linux commands questions like grep, awk, sed Q: Have you worked on on-prem VM's ? Q: What databases have you worked on? Q: Most challenging project and how you helped? Q: Do you know Jenkins and scripting in Groovy? Q: What language do you usually script in: python, bash, or both? Q: How would you check if the VM is down? Q: How to check if the disk space is running out? What steps will you take to rectify it? Q: Difference between inode and notify Round 2 : Take home Coding assignment: Q: Given a string like 'aaabccdee', return count of characters to remove to make it an string with all chars having even frequency Q: Given an array with days in it, write a function that takes a day and n as an input and returns the day that's n days from day. eg: ('wed', 3)=> sat Q: Given a file structure for music, images, videos arrange the extensions of file in their respective dir. eg : .jpg in images folder, .mp3 in music, .avi in videos folder. Round 3: Group Interview: (2 people): 90min Q: Command to see services running on VM Q: How would you manage certificates on VM? Q: What are docker layers? Q: What is docker multistage? Q: Difference between NodePort and ClusterIP? Q: How to check if the Apache service is running? Q: How did you migrate the Certificate? ( eg : Godaddy to ACM) Q: Where are the certificates stored? Q: Do you know certificate architecture in general? Explain it. Q: Explain how the client authenticates with a server? Q: Terraform vs Ansible ? Why did you choose Terraform? Q: Live coding: Fibonacci series for first 30 numbers. Any language.

Viewing 1371 - 1380 interview questions

Glassdoor has 1,931 interview questions and reports from Sre interviews. Prepare for your interview. Get hired. Love your job.