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Cisco DevOps interview questions

70 interview questions for DevOps roles at Cisco, written from Cisco’s 8 current postings on its own careers page. These are what the postings say to prepare for — not questions Cisco has asked.

Built 2026-10-09

Three of the questions

  1. Walk me through how you'd design a CI/CD platform where configuration lives in Git, secrets are stored in Vault, and deployments go out to both Kubernetes and VM-based environments. How do you keep those three pieces consistent during a release?
    Technical depth · from the posting: “configuration managed in Git, secrets secured in Vault, and automated deployments to Kubernetes or VM-based environments.lead the team in simplifying delivery workflows, increasing engineering productivity, and enabling reliable, secure, and consistent software releases at scale. As a Full Stack Software Engineer on the CI/CD Platform team”
  2. You're running EKS workloads for the Umbrella/Secure Access control plane and a deployment to production starts failing silently — pods come up but traffic optimization starts returning stale data. How do you debug this on EKS?
    Scenarios & troubleshooting · from the posting: “experienced in deploying and debugging applications on EKS”
  3. Tell me about a time you had to bridge a gap between what the application or QA team needed and what the underlying infrastructure could support. How did you approach the conversation?
    Behavioural · from the posting: “You will serve as the core DevOps partner for our application and QA teams, directly responsible for accelerating development velocity”
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What the full prep holds

  • Common questions · 8
  • Your background · 3
  • Quick-fire technical · 30
  • Technical depth · 12
  • System design · 5
  • Scenarios & troubleshooting · 6
  • The company & the problem · 3
  • Behavioural · 3
  • Questions to ask them · 3

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The Cisco postings it is written from