Gena’s questions: Please describe your last few jobs and responsibilities What were your accomplishments within that role(s) tell me about how the decision-making process worked for those accomplishments Based on what you know about Skvare now, what makes you interested in joining the team? Why are you looking for a change? Looks like you’ve had internal role changes within the same company… tell us about that. Tell me about a time something went wrong. Tell me about a time you disagreed with your boss and what happened How do you decide between competing priorities Tell me about a former boss or colleague you thought was a good leader and why For those who are closest to you and your biggest cheerleaders, what constructive criticism or advice would they give you? John’s questions: Context -> moving traditional server infra to k8s/more automated We use a lot of different tools, many of which you may not have used before. Would you consider yourself a quick learner? Are you a fairly independent learner who can read documentation and get things done without directly being told explicitly what you need to do? What type of configuration management tools have you used in the past Have you set up mail servers from scratch in the past, if so what technologies do you have experience with? Are you experienced with mail security technologies such as DKIM, and SPF? If so, how are they used and what are they used for? Have you used amazon SES? Are you familiar with setting up CI/CD? Have you deployed k8s? In what context? Are you familiar with php-fpm? nginx? In what context have you used them in the past? How experienced are you with setting up firewalls? Have you used iptables in the past? ipsets? fail2ban? List technologies we have used and ask if he has experience with them. What type of DNS record would you create if you had an existing A record for a domain, and you wanted to create a new record that did not use an IP address in the record (no A record), but rather pointed at the existing domain. Both records would end up resolving to the same IP address with the record type. Shell reading Personal projects? Confidence working with clients? Rsync … Mark Questions: Describe in as much detail as you can, what happens when a user loads a webpage from their browser? How does the web work?.Especially in the context of a PHP based CMS. (if necessary) Once the request arrives at the server, describe in detail the flow of request to response. Experience and usage of git. What are some common commands you have used and their purpose? What web applications / languages have you worked with in your work? PHP? How do you deal with stress? Are you available for working some nights? What languages do you code with? Ahmet Questions: Are you familiar with Identity and Access Management services like Ldap, Active Directory or AWS IAM? Have you ever worked with the bare metal kubernetes environments? Did you install bare metal kubernetes before? If yes, which method did you use? How confident are you when working with Kubernetes environments that were not installed by you or are legacy versions? Do you know the difference between daemonsets, statefulset and replica sets? Have you ever been experienced with high available database servers in kubernetes? Do you know about the concept of Function as a Service (FaaS) and can you explain? What's the benefits in serverless computing?