DevOps & Release Engineering Topics
CI/CD pipeline design, build automation, deployment strategies, release management, artifact repositories, version control integration, and continuous delivery practices. Covers infrastructure automation for delivery workflows, release gates and approvals, multi-service orchestration, rollback strategies, and GitOps approaches. Distinct from Cloud & Infrastructure by focusing specifically on delivery automation and release processes rather than infrastructure platforms.
Development Standards and Governance
Focuses on establishing, communicating, and enforcing team and cross team processes that ensure consistent technical quality. Topics include coding standards and style guides, code review policies and workflows, branch and release strategies, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, static analysis and linting toolchains, automated quality gates and pre commit checks, integration of testing into pipelines, metrics for defect rates complexity and coverage, strategies to manage technical debt and legacy code, governance models for exceptions and escalation, and balancing standard strictness with developer productivity. Interviewers look for experience designing standards, driving adoption, integrating tool chains, and measuring impact.
Pipeline Integration and Infrastructure Automation
Integrate pipelines with container orchestration and infrastructure automation to enable repeatable and reliable deployments. Topics include pipeline triggers and hooks, container image build and registry strategies, environment promotion and image tagging strategies, integrating infrastructure as code into pipeline workflows, interacting with orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes for deploying services, and managing multiple environments and pipeline dependencies. Also cover secrets and configuration management in pipelines, deployment automation patterns, health checks and rollout validation, and operational practices such as deployment observability and collaboration between developers and platform teams.