Junior DevOps Engineer Interview
0-2 years experience ~1.5 hours 7 Topics
Checklist covers Linux, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and Cloud
Companies: Razorpay, Swiggy, CRED, Freshworks
What You'll Learn
Before You Read This
You are 0-2 years into your DevOps career. You have set up a pipeline, run some Docker containers, and touched a Kubernetes cluster.
Tier 1 - Fundamentals Checklist
Linux What is the difference between a process and a thread? How do you check which process is using port 8080?
Tier 2 - Real Interview Questions (Q1-Q15)
You SSH into a production server and the disk is at 99%. Walk me through exactly what you do.
Tier 2 - Real Interview Questions (Q16-Q30)
After a new deploy, your app cannot connect to a database that worked fine before. What do you investigate?
Tier 3 - Scenario Round
Scenario 1: Production is Down at 11 PM The Prompt You are on-call. At 11 PM you get a message: "The checkout page is not loading, orders are failing.
Behavioral Round
Tell me about a project you built that you are proud of.
Salary Reference
These numbers assume confident, example-backed answers across Tier 2. Candidates who answer only conceptually land at the lower end.
Skills You'll Master
Curriculum Index7 topics
Before You Read This
You are 0-2 years into your DevOps career.
Tier 1 - Fundamentals Checklist
Linux What is the difference between a process and a thread? How do you check which process is using port 8080?
Tier 2 - Real Interview Questions (Q1-Q15)
You SSH into a production server and the disk is at 99%. Walk me through exactly what you do.
Tier 2 - Real Interview Questions (Q16-Q30)
After a new deploy, your app cannot connect to a database that worked fine before. What do you investigate?
Tier 3 - Scenario Round
Scenario 1: Production is Down at 11 PM The Prompt You are on-call.
Behavioral Round
Tell me about a project you built that you are proud of.
Salary Reference
These numbers assume confident, example-backed answers across Tier 2.
Career Impact
Roles this pack prepares you to interview for.
- High Demand
DevOps Engineer
Rs 6L - Rs 14L a year
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Practice on the Coding Sheet
Not a software engineer sheet. Every problem comes from real DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud interviews, from your first script to a system you build yourself.
Open the Coding SheetFrequently Asked Questions
Yes, every scenario and question here is drawn from recent interview write-ups and question patterns reported for junior DevOps roles at product companies, not invented from general knowledge.
This pack targets candidates with 0-2 years of experience interviewing for DevOps Engineer, DevOps Associate, or Infrastructure Engineer roles.
Roughly 1.5 hours to read all four rounds carefully. Most candidates spread it across two or three sessions in the days before an interview.
It helps. The scenario and Q&A rounds assume you have run Docker containers and touched a Kubernetes cluster, even briefly, since interviewers expect you to have made real mistakes to learn from.