Technical Depth and Tool Expertise Questions

Assesses the candidate ability to demonstrate deep, practical knowledge of infrastructure tools and operational patterns rather than surface familiarity. Expect detailed conversations about infrastructure as code module design and state management, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline internals, container image creation and registry management, container orchestration architecture and multi tenancy, security controls and policy enforcement, testing and validation strategies for infrastructure changes, and monitoring and observability design. Candidates should be able to explain trade offs, architectural decisions, failure modes, mitigation strategies, and testing or review practices that make systems reliable at scale.