The ideal candidate must have hands-on experience with application CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, containerization with Docker, and managing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, including deployment, troubleshooting, and upgrades.

Preferred skills include Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep, as well as automation scripting with Ansible, PowerShell, or Bash.

The interview will assess candidates through questions focused on:

- Azure Cloud services, including 2 questions on topics such as Application Gateway, networking, Azure Container Registry (ACR), identities, private endpoints, Key Vault, and both PaaS and IaaS.

- 3 scenario-based questions covering in depth AKS deployment manifests and Helm chart design and usage, troubleshooting pod failures and container issues, kubectl commands, and AKS cluster upgrade procedures and best practices.

- 2 questions related to application CI pipelines, able to create whole pipeline for a Java/dotnet/nodeJS/phthon application with SAST integration, accompanied by a coding test to demonstrate pipeline scripting skills.

- 2 questions related to application CD pipelines, deployment strategies with DAST integration, accompanied by a coding test to demonstrate pipeline scripting skills

- 1 question covering general DevOps best practices, including branch strategies, pull requests, Git command usage, and security testing techniques like SAST and DAST.

Additionally, candidates will be evaluated on Infrastructure as Code with two questions based on their experience and a practical coding test involving Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep scripts.