Ace Your DevOps / SRE Interview – 1-on-1 Coaching, Mock Interviews & Custom Roadmap
Overview:
Interview looming and imposter syndrome kicking in? Take a breath—Lucas Martins, ex-Amazon DevOps & SRE lead with seven years in the trenches, is here to turn your nerves into job-winning confidence. From first-time candidates to staff-level engineers, I tailor every session to your exact role, tech stack and experience so you walk into any panel ready to impress.
What you get
- Custom study plan built from your target job description & resume gaps
- Live 1-on-1 mock interviews (behavioral + system design + coding/scripting) with real-time feedback
Deep-dive curriculum covering:
- – Linux internals & troubleshooting
- – Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/2, gRPC, load-balancing, CDN)
- – CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Spinnaker)
- – Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP) – IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, GKE, AKS, Lambda, Cloud Run, Spot instances, Cost-optimization
- – IaC – Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Terragrunt, Atlantis
- – Configuration Management – Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet
- – Containers & Orchestration – Docker, Dockerfile best-practices, multi-stage builds, Kubernetes (Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, CRDs, Helm, Kustomize, Operators), OpenShift, Rancher
- – Observability – Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Thanos, Datadog, New Relic, ELK/EFK, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry
- – SRE golden signals, SLI/SLO/SLA, error budgets, blameless post-mortems, chaos engineering (Litmus, ChaosMonkey)
- – Release strategies – blue/green, canary, rolling, feature flags (LaunchDarkly, Unleash)
- – Security & Compliance – SAST/DAST, OWASP, CIS benchmarks, Vault, KMS, RBAC, PodSecurityPolicies, OPA/Gatekeeper
- – Scripting – Bash, Python, Go fundamentals
- – Version control & Git workflows (trunk-based, GitFlow)
Methodology
- Diagnostic session: identify weak spots & target companies.
- Personalised roadmap with weekly milestones & resources.
- Progressive mock interviews (easy → hard) recorded for replay.
- Post-session gap homework with curated labs (KillerCoda, Qwiklabs, Minikube, AWS Free Tier).
- Final “stress test” interview simulating exact hiring panel.
Success metrics
Average candidate improvement: 38 % salary bump, 92 % onsite-to-offer ratio, median prep duration 3 weeks.