Account structure, networking, workload identity and how you keep secrets out of your applications.
1. How would you lay out accounts or subscriptions, networking and identity for a company moving its first twenty workloads to the cloud?
~3 minChecks landing-zone thinking rather than single-VPC habits.
2. A workload must survive the loss of an availability zone with under five minutes of downtime. What architecture do you propose and what does it cost you?
~3 minTests resilience design paired with honest cost framing.
3. Cloud spend grew 30% quarter over quarter with flat traffic. How do you find the cause and stop the bleeding?
~3 minFinOps instinct and evidence gathering.
4. Explain how you grant an application access to a managed database without long-lived secrets.
~3 minChecks identity fundamentals.
Warm-up & context · 4 min
Interviewer intro, your background, how the session runs.
Core questions · 21 min
Role-specific questions with live follow-ups based on your answers.
Deep dive · 7 min
One topic explored to the edge of your experience.
Your questions & wrap · 4 min
Close the loop and hand over to feedback generation.
Design for zone failure with a five-minute recovery objective, then justify the bill you just created.
A hands-on platform interview covering pipeline design, infrastructure as code and how you behave in the first minutes of an incident.
API design, testing strategy and performance debugging, grounded in code you have actually shipped.