Cloud & DevOps Engineer interview practice

Kubernetes operations, zero-downtime deploys, observability, and infrastructure-as-code — incident-commander thinking under verbal pressure.

Topics this interview probes

Kubernetes operations Zero-downtime deploys Observability & SLOs IaC (Terraform) Cost engineering Incident response

Walk me through a zero-downtime rolling deployment and what happens when it half-fails.
A service’s p99 latency alerts fire sporadically. Describe your debugging path from alert to root cause.
How do you decide between autoscaling horizontally and vertically, and how do you test that decision?

The live interviewer generates fresh, role-tailored questions — and drills down when your answers are vague.