Last updated: December 9, 2025
DevOps Engineer interviews assess your knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, containerization, cloud platforms, and operational excellence. Expect hands-on technical questions about building deployment pipelines, managing Kubernetes clusters, writing infrastructure as code, troubleshooting production issues, and implementing monitoring solutions. Companies value engineers who bridge development and operations, automate everything, and ensure reliability at scale.
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Structure answers with Situation, Task, Action, Result. Describe the infrastructure challenge (15%), your automation and tooling approach (40%), implementation with specific technologies (25%), and quantified improvements in deployment frequency, reliability, or cost (20%).
Phone Screen (45 min): DevOps philosophy, tool experience, basic scenarios
Technical Round 1 (60 min): CI/CD pipeline design, infrastructure automation
Technical Round 2 (60 min): Kubernetes/container orchestration, troubleshooting
Technical Round 3 (60 min): System design, monitoring, security best practices
Behavioral Round (45 min): Incident response, collaboration, continuous improvement
Common topics and questions you might encounter in your DevOps Engineer interview
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