Assignment:
You were an AWS Solutions Architect at your previous job and you have over 8 years experience in AWS cloud and DevOps
You are at an interview for a job position as a Middleware/Cloud Engineer and you are asked 13 interview questions.
What possible answers would you give to the 13 interview questions below:
A. Tell us a little bit about your background focusing on any AWS Cloud and DevOps experience.
B. Size of the team you are on now? How are responsibilities shared within your team?
C. How are projects managed in your environment? Does your team follow Agile principles and methodologies? Do you have any experience with Scrum or Kanban, elaborate?
D. Do you currently use a ticketing system, if so which ticketing system? Have you ever worked with Jira? If so, what is your level of experience with Jira?
E. AWS Experience Level: What services do you use? Expected response: Candidate provides a list of services being used in the candidate's environment.
F. This role will be to perform Linux 3rd party and OS patching. Some patching will be done automatically some will require manual patching.
If we have a critical or high Tomcat vulnerability what is your approach to mitigate this vulnerability? What are the steps to mitigate the Tomcat vulnerability?
G. How do you identify the correct patch to address this Tomcat vulnerability?
H. If we get an OS level vulnerability - Kernel vulnerability, how do you fix it? What are the Linux commands required to address this vulnerability?
I. We have an S3 bucket and a Tomcat app running on an EC2 that needs to access the S3 bucket to store data. How would you implement this?
J. What is the authentication process?
K. Please explain a policy to allow the Tomcat app to communicate with the S3 bucket?
L. We have a code deployment in Lambda ECS or an EC2 cluster. We need authentication from X service to Y service. What would you do?
M. We have an EC2 server running an application and a database running on an EC2 server. There is a connection timeout when the application attempts to insert data into the DB. How will you troubleshoot this issue and reestablish the connection?