Capgemini

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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 4 System Design 3 CI/CD 3 Scripting 3 Security 3 Containerization 2 Consulting Skills 2 Operating Systems 2

DevOps Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Tell me about a time you had to push back on a client or stakeholder who demanded an unrealistic deployment deadline.

#Stakeholder Management #Communication #Agile

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DevOps Engineer • Behavioral • medium

Describe a time when you caused a production outage. What happened, and what did you do to resolve and prevent it?

#Incident Management #Accountability #Post-mortem

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DevOps Engineer • Behavioral • easy

How would you explain the value of DevOps to a non-technical C-level executive at a client site?

#Communication #Business Value #DevOps Culture

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DevOps Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a Python script that connects to a REST API, fetches a list of servers, and filters out the ones that have a 'status' of 'offline'.

#Python #REST API #JSON

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DevOps Engineer • Coding • easy

Write a Bash script to find all log files in '/var/log' older than 30 days and compress them into a tar archive.

#Bash #Linux #Automation

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DevOps Engineer • Coding • easy

Write a Python function to check if a given string is a palindrome, ignoring spaces and case.

#Python #Strings

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DevOps Engineer • Coding • medium

Write a Python script to parse a large log file, count the occurrences of HTTP 500 errors, and output the top 5 IP addresses causing them.

#Python #Log Parsing #Data Structures

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DevOps Engineer • System Design • hard

Design a highly available, fault-tolerant 3-tier web application architecture on AWS for a retail client expecting high Black Friday traffic.

#AWS #High Availability #Auto Scaling #Load Balancing

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DevOps Engineer • System Design • hard

Design a CI/CD pipeline for a monolithic application that is being gradually strangled into microservices. How do you handle the transition?

#CI/CD #Microservices #Migration

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DevOps Engineer • System Design • medium

You need to automate the patching of 500 Linux VMs across multiple environments. How would you architect this solution?

#Automation #Ansible #Patch Management

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DevOps Engineer • System Design • hard

A client wants to migrate their on-premise infrastructure to Azure. What are the key phases and tools you would use for this migration?

#Azure #Migration #Consulting

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DevOps Engineer • System Design • hard

Design a centralized logging architecture for a microservices environment deployed on Kubernetes.

#Logging #ELK #Fluentd #Kubernetes

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

In a large enterprise client project, how would you implement and manage Jenkins Shared Libraries to avoid code duplication across 50+ microservice pipelines?

#Jenkins #Groovy #CI/CD #Pipeline as Code

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

A deployment pipeline failed in production during a critical client release. Walk me through your step-by-step troubleshooting process.

#CI/CD #Incident Management #Logs

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you manage Terraform state in a multi-developer team to prevent concurrent modifications and state corruption?

#Terraform #AWS #State Management

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • hard

Explain the difference between Blue/Green and Canary deployment strategies. In what client scenario would you recommend one over the other?

#Kubernetes #CI/CD #Release Management

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

A Kubernetes pod is stuck in a 'CrashLoopBackOff' state. What commands and steps do you use to diagnose the issue?

#Kubernetes #Troubleshooting #Docker

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • hard

At Capgemini, we often manage multiple AWS accounts for a single client. How do you securely configure cross-account access without sharing IAM user credentials?

#AWS IAM #Security #Cross-Account

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you optimize a Dockerfile to reduce the final image size and improve build times?

#Docker #Optimization #CI/CD

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

What is the difference between 'count' and 'for_each' in Terraform? When would you use 'for_each' over 'count'?

#Terraform #HCL

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you integrate security scanning (DevSecOps) into an Azure DevOps or GitLab pipeline?

#DevSecOps #CI/CD #SonarQube #Trivy

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • hard

A Linux server is reporting 'No space left on device', but when you run 'df -h', it shows 40% free space. What is the problem and how do you fix it?

#Linux #Troubleshooting #Filesystems

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • hard

Explain the concept of GitOps. How does a tool like ArgoCD differ from a traditional push-based Jenkins pipeline?

#GitOps #ArgoCD #Kubernetes

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you manage secrets (API keys, database passwords) in a Kubernetes environment?

#Kubernetes #Secret Management #HashiCorp Vault

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

What is the difference between an Ansible Playbook and an Ansible Role? How do you structure a complex automation project?

#Ansible #Automation

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

How does a Kubernetes Ingress controller work, and how is it different from a LoadBalancer service?

#Kubernetes #Networking #Ingress

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • easy

Explain the difference between 'git merge' and 'git rebase'. When should you avoid using rebase?

#Git #Collaboration

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • hard

How do you handle database schema migrations in an automated CI/CD pipeline without causing downtime?

#Databases #CI/CD #Flyway #Liquibase

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • hard

What are the key differences between AWS Transit Gateway and VPC Peering? When would you use Transit Gateway?

#AWS #Networking #Enterprise Architecture

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • hard

How do you configure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Kubernetes? Explain Roles, ClusterRoles, and RoleBindings.

#Kubernetes #RBAC #Security

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

What are the four golden signals of monitoring, and how would you implement them using Prometheus and Grafana?

#Monitoring #Prometheus #Grafana

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain how Docker networking works. What is the difference between 'bridge', 'host', and 'none' network modes?

#Docker #Networking

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

In Terraform, how do you manage infrastructure across multiple environments (Dev, QA, Prod) using the same code base?

#Terraform #Environment Management

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • hard

A Linux server has a high load average but low CPU utilization. What could be causing this, and how do you investigate?

#Linux #Performance Tuning #Troubleshooting

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DevOps Engineer • Technical • medium

Why might you choose Terraform over native cloud IaC tools like AWS CloudFormation or Azure ARM/Bicep?

#Terraform #CloudFormation #Bicep

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