Role and Team Specific Responsibilities Questions
Focus on how a specific role fits within a particular team or domain, including domain ownership, systems and services owned, on call and incident responsibilities, autonomy and decision making, and how the role contributes to team outcomes. This topic also covers clarifying reporting relationships, typical stakeholders, and how the team is structured. Candidates should ask and answer concrete questions about team charters, ownership boundaries, and expectations for collaboration.
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Compare three service ownership models for an organization with 50 microservices: embedded SRE per product team, centralized platform SRE, and a hybrid model. For each model describe operational implications, hiring and career path consequences, impact on service reliability and developer velocity, and one scenario where it is the best fit.
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You are given a draft team charter listing responsibilities for a product team and SRE: Product team: feature code, business logic, unit tests; SRE: deployments, monitoring, incident response, scalability. Identify ambiguous ownership boundaries, list five concrete actions to clarify ownership, and propose a short change to the charter to remove ambiguity.
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Design an automated system to detect flapping alerts and suppress noisy alerts temporarily. Describe the detection algorithm (e.g., frequent flaps in short windows), suppression/backoff strategy, how to surface suppressed alerts to owners, and safeguards to avoid masking a real ongoing incident.
MediumTechnical
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You need to define a set of KPIs to measure the reliability contribution of an SRE team for product managers and execs. Propose a balanced set of quantitative and qualitative KPIs, describe data sources, and explain how to prevent teams from gaming those metrics.
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Design a multi-region, 24/7 on-call model for an organization operating in US, EU, and APAC. Address follow-the-sun rotations, cross-region escalation, handovers, legal/timezone constraints, paging thresholds to avoid waking wrong regions, and how to maintain continuity and ownership across handovers.
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