What interview questions should you ask when hiring a DevSecOps engineer?

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CTO in Education2 years ago

I would require the candidate to elaborate which tools is he/she is using and what they think of these tools in term of security.

Senior Manager in Consumer Goods2 years ago

What are you most excited about accomplishing with DevOps in this organization?

What languages can you code in?
What are the top DevOps tools you have experience with?
What will you do in the first three months of being a DevOps engineer?

Talk about a recent professional achievement using DevOps practices?

SVP - Software Engineering in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

I would certainly ask around their tooling, but that also changes over time. I would also ask the person how they think about automation in general.
The reality is that a good DevSecOps person will think obsessively about taking manual steps out of the process through automation. I would also ask about how they monitor and ensure the automated processes work and what they would do to build resiliency “when” (not “if”) you run into prod support issues.

On the Sec part of DevSecOps, I would ask the person around how they would implement authentication and authorization to ensure the workflows are secure from outside intruders and internal team members doing things they shouldn’t be doing.

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Chief Technology Officer in Software2 years ago

Questions around Devops and Security. Focus around configuration management , containerization , continuous integration , automation testing , branching, Jenkins, version control. Flavour of docker and ansible.

If basics are the point , the resource is hired.

Director of IT in Education2 years ago

Questions surrounding the origin story of how the applicant chose this field; responses can indicate their level of commitment and willingness/desire to continually invest in self-improvement/growth.

Moving forward through the employment journey, asking them to expand on their challenges, resolutions, accomplishments AND failures.

Ask additional questions to get a sense of interpersonal skills & level of team player aptitude.