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Design a Highly Scalable and Resilient Architecture: Describe how you would architect a cloud-based system to handle a sudden surge in traffic while maintaining high availability and reliability. Consider factors such as load balancing, auto-scaling, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery strategies. Optimizing Cloud Costs: A company is experiencing unexpectedly high cloud costs. How would you identify cost optimization opportunities without sacrificing performance or functionality? Provide specific examples of cost-saving measures you would implement, such as rightsizing instances, leveraging reserved instances, or implementing serverless architectures.
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Cloud Engineer

Interviewed at iiDENTIFii

3.1
May 6, 2024

Design a Highly Scalable and Resilient Architecture: Describe how you would architect a cloud-based system to handle a sudden surge in traffic while maintaining high availability and reliability. Consider factors such as load balancing, auto-scaling, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery strategies. Optimizing Cloud Costs: A company is experiencing unexpectedly high cloud costs. How would you identify cost optimization opportunities without sacrificing performance or functionality? Provide specific examples of cost-saving measures you would implement, such as rightsizing instances, leveraging reserved instances, or implementing serverless architectures.

- Experience with cloud tools, k8, kafka - TCP vs UDP, and more networking questions like HTTP and TLS - Why do you want to work for this company - Are you okay even if your interests does not align with the role you will work on?
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Cloud Security Engineer

Interviewed at TP-LINK Technologies Co., Ltd.

2.9
Apr 24, 2024

- Experience with cloud tools, k8, kafka - TCP vs UDP, and more networking questions like HTTP and TLS - Why do you want to work for this company - Are you okay even if your interests does not align with the role you will work on?

They asked about my previous company’s process, how we managed DevOps tools, and some basic Linux commands. They also covered cloud environment questions related to Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor/Insights, and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) focusing on how I handled deployments, monitoring, and incident response in those environments.
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Cloud Site Reliability Engineer II

Interviewed at Zafin

3.8
Apr 15, 2025

They asked about my previous company’s process, how we managed DevOps tools, and some basic Linux commands. They also covered cloud environment questions related to Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor/Insights, and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) focusing on how I handled deployments, monitoring, and incident response in those environments.

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