Here’s a sample of what a one-day, end-to-end DevSecOps interview with all rounds merged might look like:
Kick-off & Introductions (15 min)
You meet with the hiring manager and HR partner for a quick welcome, overview of the agenda, and a brief pitch on the company’s culture and team structure.
Technical Deep-Dive: Infrastructure & Automation (45 min)
A senior DevOps engineer walks you through a live whiteboard exercise: design a CI/CD pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys a containerized app.
You’re asked to call out where and how you’d integrate security controls (static code analysis, dependency scanning, secrets management).
Hands-On Security Challenge (60 min)
You log into a sandbox environment and are presented with a deliberately misconfigured Kubernetes cluster or IaC template.
Your task: identify at least three vulnerabilities, remediate them on the spot, and explain your fixes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
an you explain the CIA triad and give examples of how each principle is enforced?
What’s the difference between authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)?
How does public key infrastructure (PKI) work? Walk me through issuing and validating a certificate.
What’s the difference between symmetric and asymmetric encryption, and when would you use each?