DevOps Interview Preparation Guide

DevOps Interview Preparation: CI/CD, Cloud, and Automation

DevOps engineer roles combine software development, cloud infrastructure, and operational excellence. According to the 2025 DevOps Salary Report, senior DevOps engineers earn $150K-$200K. Interviews test: CI/CD pipeline design, cloud architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform/Pulumi).

DevOps interviews increasingly focus on Kubernetes and infrastructure as code. According to the CNCF 2025 Survey, 96% of organizations use or evaluate Kubernetes, making it the #1 required DevOps skill.

Core DevOps Topics

• CI/CD — Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI. Pipeline design: build → test → deploy
• Containers — Docker (containerization), Kubernetes (orchestration). See Kubernetes questions
• IaC — Terraform modules, state management, drift detection
• Cloud — AWS (most common), Azure, GCP. See AWS interview questions
• Monitoring — Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PagerDuty alerting

Practice with AissenceAI mock interviews. Related: cloud engineering.