Cisco Site Reliability interview questions
68 interview questions for Site Reliability 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.
Three of the questions
- Walk me through how you'd operate a Kubernetes-based production deployment system that has to support both regular cloud customers and air-gapped, on-prem customers. What changes between the two in terms of upgrades and lifecycle management?
- It's 2 AM and you get paged because an air-gapped customer's Splunk Agent Resilience deployment failed mid-upgrade and now the cluster is in a half-upgraded state with no internet access for you to pull extra diagnostics. Walk me through what you do.
- The postings mention designing and operating infrastructure across 'cloud and air-gapped environments' and 'multi-region scale'. Tell me about a time when you had to support the same system in two very different deployment contexts. What made it hard?
What the full prep holds
- Common questions
- Your background
- Quick-fire technical
- Technical depth
- System design
- Scenarios & troubleshooting
- The company & the problem
- Behavioural
- Questions to ask them
A free account shows the 8 common questions and the 3 above. Basic and Elite show every question with how to answer it; Elite also writes your own answers from your resume. See plans.