Nail Your DevOps Interview
1h 27mBeginner2023-01-19
Authors

Michael Jenkins
Senior Systems Engineer
Course details
DevOps engineers are in high demand, but the barriers to entering the field can be intimidating. DevOps roles require an intermediate to advanced knowledge of a wide set of tools and skills, from security to cloud services. If you've lined up an interview for a DevOps position, then you need to be able to showcase your mastery of these essential concepts. In this course, Michael Jenkins shares tips for answering common interview questions accurately and concisely—and, in turn, proving why you're the best candidate for the job. Michael covers general interview preparation; common DevOps skills you should know or become familiar with; cloud services (and why they're important); and business practices that are common to DevOps roles.
Learning objectives
Preparing for an interview
Methods for answering questions
Acing DevOps business practice questions
Common DevOps skills
Answering questions about cloud services and databases
Asking questions during your interview
Following up after an interview
Learning objectives
Preparing for an interview
Methods for answering questions
Acing DevOps business practice questions
Common DevOps skills
Answering questions about cloud services and databases
Asking questions during your interview
Following up after an interview
Skills covered
Hiring and InterviewingTech Career SkillsJob SearchingCareer DevelopmentHuman ResourcesCybersecurityLearningCloud ComputingData ScienceSoftware Development
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Transform your career in DevOps
- 02 - What you should know
- 03 - DevOps vs. SRE vs. automation engineer
1. Interview Prep
- 04 - Preparing for the interview
- 05 - Researching the opportunity
- 06 - Getting DevOps experience
- 07 - Certifications
- 08 - Methods for answering questions
2. DevOps Business Practices Questions
- 09 - Defining DevOps
- 10 - The DevOps lifecycle
- 11 - Lean vs. agile vs. DevOps
- 12 - CI CD
- 13 - Configuration management
- 14 - Monitoring and alerting
- 15 - Testing
- 16 - Challenge
- 17 - Solution
3. Common DevOps Skills
- 18 - Operating systems
- 19 - Command line tools
- 20 - Scripting and programming
- 21 - Software version control
- 22 - Troubleshooting
- 23 - Incident management
- 24 - Security
4. Cloud Services Questions
- 25 - Cloud services and their benefits
- 26 - Architecting cloud solutions
- 27 - Infrastructure as Code
5. Applications and Services Questions
- 28 - Web servers
- 29 - Databases
- 30 - Containers
- 31 - Challenge
- 32 - Solution
6. Wrapping Up Your Interview
- 33 - Asking questions
- 34 - Following up
Conclusion
- 35 - Next steps