Capgemini

Global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology.

4 Rounds ~21 Days Medium

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Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.

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All Roles Backend Engineer 35 Cloud Engineer 35 Data Engineer 35 Data Scientist 35 DevOps Engineer 35 Frontend Engineer 35 Full Stack Engineer 35 Machine Learning Engineer 35 Product Manager 35 Software Engineer 35

All Topics Infrastructure as Code 3 Cloud Security 3 Networking 3 Observability 2 Algorithms 2 Troubleshooting 2 Automation 2 Containers 2

Cloud Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time you had to convince a reluctant client to adopt a modern cloud practice (like IaC or CI/CD).

#Client Communication #Persuasion #Culture Fit

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Cloud Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Describe a situation where you made a mistake that caused an outage. How did you handle it and what was the post-mortem?

#Accountability #Incident Management

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Cloud Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Capgemini often works with tight deadlines. Tell me about a time you had to deliver a complex cloud solution under immense time pressure.

#Time Management #Prioritization #Agile

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Cloud Engineer • Behavioral • easy

How do you stay updated with the rapidly changing cloud ecosystem (AWS/Azure updates)?

#Self-Improvement #Cloud Trends

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Cloud Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time you had to work with a globally distributed team to resolve a critical technical issue.

#Communication #Global Delivery Model

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Cloud Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a Python script to list all stale AWS EBS volumes (unattached for > 30 days) and delete them.

#Python #Boto3 #AWS

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Cloud Engineer • Coding • medium

Given a log file with various HTTP status codes, write a bash command or Python script to find the top 5 IP addresses that received 500 Internal Server Error.

#Bash #Linux #Log Parsing

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Cloud Engineer • Coding • easy

Given an array of integers nums and an integer target, return indices of the two numbers such that they add up to target.

#Arrays #Hash Maps

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Cloud Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a script to interact with a REST API, fetch JSON data with pagination, and extract specific fields into a CSV.

#Python #API #Data Processing

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Cloud Engineer • Coding • medium

Given a string s containing just the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[' and ']', determine if the input string is valid.

#Stacks #Strings

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Cloud Engineer • System Design • medium

Explain how you would design a highly available, fault-tolerant architecture in AWS for a 3-tier web application.

#AWS #High Availability #Auto Scaling #Load Balancing

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Cloud Engineer • System Design • hard

A client wants to migrate their legacy monolithic on-premise application to Azure. Walk me through your migration strategy.

#Azure #Migration Strategies #Consulting

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Cloud Engineer • System Design • hard

Design a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for a mission-critical cloud application with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour.

#Architecture #RPO/RTO #Multi-Region

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

How do you handle Terraform state management in a multi-developer, multi-environment setup? What happens if the state file gets corrupted?

#Terraform #State Management #Collaboration

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the difference between an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in AWS. When would you use each?

#AWS #Load Balancing #Networking

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you secure a public-facing S3 bucket while still allowing a specific CloudFront distribution to access its contents?

#AWS #S3 #CloudFront #Security

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

Describe how you would set up a Hub and Spoke network topology in Azure. How do you route traffic between spokes?

#Azure #VNet Peering #Network Topology

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

What is the difference between AWS Fargate and EC2 for running ECS/EKS workloads?

#AWS #Containers #Serverless

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you manage secrets and sensitive data in a CI/CD pipeline deploying to Kubernetes?

#Kubernetes #Secrets Management #CI/CD

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

Explain how Kubernetes handles networking. How do Pods communicate across different nodes?

#Kubernetes #Networking #CNI

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

Walk me through a Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD pipeline you built from scratch. How did you handle rollbacks?

#Jenkins #GitLab #Pipelines #Rollbacks

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

You are writing a Terraform module for a client. How do you implement dynamic blocks and use `for_each` vs `count`?

#Terraform #Coding

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

What are Terraform provisioners, and why does HashiCorp recommend using them as a last resort?

#Terraform #Best Practices

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the concept of GitOps. How does ArgoCD or Flux differ from traditional push-based CI/CD?

#GitOps #Kubernetes #ArgoCD

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • easy

How do you build a Docker image that is optimized for size and security?

#Docker #Security #Optimization

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you enforce least privilege access in AWS IAM? Explain the evaluation logic of IAM policies.

#AWS #IAM #Security

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

A client's cloud bill spiked by 40% last month. How do you investigate and remediate this?

#Cost Optimization #AWS Cost Explorer #Azure Cost Management

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the use of Azure Private Link vs Service Endpoints.

#Azure #Security #Networking

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

How do you implement network segmentation and micro-segmentation in a Kubernetes cluster?

#Kubernetes #Network Policies #Security

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

What is AWS GuardDuty, and how would you automate the response to a high-severity finding?

#AWS #GuardDuty #Automation

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

A microservice deployed on EKS is randomly crashing with OOMKilled errors, but the node has plenty of memory. How do you troubleshoot?

#Kubernetes #EKS #Performance

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

You receive a P1 alert that a database connection pool is exhausted. What are your immediate steps?

#Databases #Troubleshooting #Incident Response

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you troubleshoot a '502 Bad Gateway' error between an Ingress controller and a backend pod?

#Kubernetes #Ingress #Networking

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • easy

What metrics do you consider most critical when setting up monitoring for a cloud-native application?

#Monitoring #Prometheus #SRE

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Cloud Engineer • Technical • hard

Explain how you would trace a request end-to-end across a distributed microservices architecture.

#Distributed Tracing #Microservices #OpenTelemetry

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