Senior Cloud Engineer — Resilience & FinOps

What this session covers

• RTO/RPO
• Failover
• FinOps
• Capacity
• Trade-offs

Questions you'll face

1. 1. How would you lay out accounts or subscriptions, networking and identity for a company moving its first twenty workloads to the cloud?

   ~3 min

   Checks landing-zone thinking rather than single-VPC habits.

2. 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 min

   Tests resilience design paired with honest cost framing.

3. 3. Cloud spend grew 30% quarter over quarter with flat traffic. How do you find the cause and stop the bleeding?

   ~3 min

   FinOps instinct and evidence gathering.

4. 4. Explain how you grant an application access to a managed database without long-lived secrets.

   ~3 min

   Checks identity fundamentals.

How the time is spent

1. 1

   Warm-up & context · 5 min

   Interviewer intro, your background, how the session runs.

2. 2

   Core questions · 27 min

   Role-specific questions with live follow-ups based on your answers.

3. 3

   Deep dive · 9 min

   One topic explored to the edge of your experience.

4. 4

   Your questions & wrap · 5 min

   Close the loop and hand over to feedback generation.