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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Design an approval process for emergency changes during incidents that balances fast action with traceability and control. Define who can approve, how approvals are recorded, temporary permission scopes, post-incident reviews, and how to revoke/rollback emergency changes.
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Create a governance workflow for developers proposing changes that affect shared CI/CD infrastructure (pipeline images, base images, shared Helm charts). Define approval steps, required automated tests, rollback procedures, emergency change exemptions, and how to record audit trails.
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Design a disaster recovery plan for a stateful database-backed service with RPO of 1 hour and RTO of 4 hours. Include backup frequency and retention, replication topology, failover orchestration steps, validation/testing cadence, data integrity checks, and what parts SRE must automate and what require manual approval.
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Describe an approach to quantify the ROI of SRE initiatives such as automation, incident reduction, and performance optimization in order to prioritize investment. Include metrics, how to attribute benefits to SRE work, handling long-term versus short-term returns, and examples of high and low ROI projects.
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Decide when a failure should be handled by automated remediation versus requiring human intervention. Describe criteria you would use (impact, confidence, blast radius, cost of false positives) and produce a short decision rubric that teams can follow.
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