1. CI/CD
Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.
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Hire a DevOps / Platform Engineer who can do the job — and prove it in 30 minutes.
DevOps engineers automate and streamline infrastructure and deployment processes to support scalable systems. You focus on reliability and efficiency, ensuring systems run smoothly and can recover swiftly from incidents. SealHire’s interviewer runs a structured, adaptive conversation built for this role, records it, and hands your team a sealed report where every score links to the moment that earned it.
- Candidates take it from a link — no app, no account
- Interviews run any hour, at the candidate’s pace
- Free pilot · no credit card
What the interview probes
The 5 skills a DevOps / Platform Engineer is interviewed on.
Each is probed with follow-ups built from the candidate’s own answer, and scored against the level you set — with the quote and the timestamp behind every score.
2. Infrastructure as Code
Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.
3. Containers
Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.
4. Monitoring
Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.
5. Incident Response
Probed to the level of a real example: what they did, what happened, what they would change.
What a strong candidate shows
The brief the interviewer works from.
The work
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
- Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools
- Containerize applications and manage them with orchestration tools
- Set up and maintain monitoring and alerting systems
- Participate in on-call rotations for incident response and resolution
What it takes
- Experience with CI/CD tools and practices
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, like Terraform or CloudFormation
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Knowledge of monitoring tools and best practices
- Strong problem-solving skills for incident management
Interview format
30 minutes, at the level you are hiring for.
Length
About 30 minutes of live conversation, taken from a link on any device, at any hour. No app, no account.
Levels offered
Entry / Junior · Mid-level · Senior · Lead / Staff / Principal · Manager · Director / Head of. The brief sets the level; the questions and the bar move with it.
What you get
A sealed recording and timestamped transcript, integrity signals observed during the interview, and a report with a recommendation and the evidence behind it.
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A structured AI interview walks each candidate through real problems — design choices, debugging, trade-offs — and links every claim to the moment they made it, before your team spends an hour on a phone screen.
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Send the first DevOps / Platform Engineer interview today.
Free pilot, no credit card. Set the brief, send the links, review the evidence.