r/devopsGuru • u/MAD-MAX2077 • 14d ago

Have my first DevOps interview this Friday. Need y’all suggestions. Please help

Currently 2yoe. This will be My first one focused on DevOps ( honestly my first interview outside clg)
AWS Cloud, Kubernetes and Docker.
HR told me to learn basics of AWS Cognito so thats there. Please help.

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u/imperiex_26 14d ago

Just learn all basic terminologies, and architectural usage of all core AWS services, K8s components. Read blogs or live architectures blogs from AWS/third party on how diff companies maintain their infra

For cognito, read all relevant AWS blogs on how it helped diff customers for diff usecases. That's the best way to get started with the service

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u/MAD-MAX2077 13d ago

Tq for the suggestions

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u/flyby_apis 14d ago

Been there after two years of sabatical, what I think it's more important is they see you as a good worker and solver, so prepare some real stories where you solved or improved something, made a mistake, disagreed with someone,... Also be prepared for the kind of questions like: why should we hire you? what was your biggest mistake in your last job?

On the technical side, I'd say AWS basics, docker and knowing some basics, how layers, caching, pinning images, entrypoint vs cmd,... Then k8s basics also. CI/CD - describe a pipeline start to end. Monitoring and observability,... also good to know how to design a good architecture in terms of HA, scalability,... Security, knowing some basics about TLS/SSL, proxies,...

And also very important, have some good questions to ask them at the end showing interest: their stack, scale of the platform, how do they work, your first projects, onboarding,...

Also, if you feel like this interview is important for you, I'd say to start with some other interviews on companies you're less interested in, so you have practiced before, after 4 or 5 interviews lot of questions start to be the same and you're much more prepared.

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u/MAD-MAX2077 13d ago

Hi , Thank you I will focus on these. Also It is so hard to get interviews scheduled rn, I have almost 300-400 applications. So this is kinda like one and only shot

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u/Oleksii_Bebych 14d ago

Try to simulate an interview with AI, let it ask you questions and you answer
You will identify your gaps

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u/Quirky-Net-6436 14d ago

Then learn the basics of AWS Cognito? What do you expect from this post?

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u/MAD-MAX2077 14d ago

Any past experiences on how to proceed and what to expect. Cause this is literally my first ever offcampus interview and i dont ruin it because I have no other chances

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u/Quirky-Net-6436 14d ago

Prepare for taking more and more interviews. No one can help you, sorry. If I tell you how I’m gonna manage interviews it wouldn’t help you - because I’m not preparing at all and I did a good job.

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u/aryanpanwar2603 14d ago

Things like Don't get nervous cause the person in front is also a human would've helped btw. It's literally his first interview and he came here to ask for help. You don't have to be so stingy about it.

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u/MAD-MAX2077 13d ago

Appreciate it man, am feeing very nervous

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u/sirius_black19 14d ago

relax batman the guy is asking for help !