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What do you understand about DevOps? Can you please define it in your terminologies?
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What are the ways, DevOps will help the Software Projects and Team?
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What is Continuous Integration? Share your approach which you applied in your projects in order to implement CI.
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What is difference between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment?
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How Jenkins will help to implement CI and what are the capabilities what Jenkins has so we call Jenkins is a CI tool?
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How is DevOps different from Agile / SDLC?
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What are the advantages of DevOps for the organization?
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Whether DevOps can be implemented only by DevOps Engineer in a project? If not, Why we should hire you?
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How would you deploy a software to 5000 systems? Do you know how you would go about large-scale deployments?
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How would you trace a binary deployment back to the source code ? How would you structure such a build ?How do you plan capacity for your CI/CD servers ?
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Which are the top DevOps tools? Which tools have you worked on? How do all these tools work together?
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Explain your understanding and expertise on both the software development side and the technical operations side of an organization you have worked with in the past.
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What is agile development and Scrum ?
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Can we consider DevOps as an agile methodology ?
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What is DevOps engineer’s duty with regards to Agile development ?
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How people communicate or the tools that you choose to deploy?
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How would you make software deployable?
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How do you manage dependencies ?
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What are the branching strategy you follow and why?
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Discuss your experience building bridges between IT Ops, QA and development.
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This blog is a strong starting point for DevOps interview preparation because it focuses on the real areas employers test: practical troubleshooting, delivery pipelines, automation, cloud basics, and reliability thinking. The best way to use these questions is not to memorize answers, but to connect each topic with a hands-on example—like how you built a CI/CD pipeline, handled a failed deployment, managed secrets, or improved monitoring and alerts. Interviews often look for clarity on fundamentals (Linux, networking, Git, scripting), plus modern tooling concepts (Docker/Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability). If you can explain trade-offs—speed vs stability, manual vs automated, push vs pull deployments, blue-green vs rolling—you stand out as someone who can work in production reality. Overall, these questions help you structure your preparation like a checklist and build confidence with real-world reasoning.