Sense of the environment

  • What was the major apps or features delivered in last 6 months
  • what are the pki and how are they measured for the business and for the division/group
  • how many deployments to production do you do in a day/week/month/year
  • Whats your lead time (open to deployed in prod)?
  • Are you mostly a Microsoft shop or opensource?
  • how many testing and production environments (including any disaster recovery sites) do you have
  • do you have a log aggregation system for troubleshooting applications and consolidated event logs/syslogs/iislogs?
  • is the devops group responsible for antivirus updates, os patching, malware scanning, disk space monitoring?
  • What’s the 12 to 18 month road map

Toolchain automation

  • How are new apps onboarded and how quickly can they get deployed to prod.
  • what kind of automated testing is in place, and what are the PKI’s around them – 80% code coverage?
    • what about legacy systems
  • do you have an automated security scan (appscan, fortify, etc?)
  • what about dynamic security testing
    • how are these actioned?

Specific to the interviewer

  • What kind of collaboration do you have with your peers
  • Who are your customers (business units, dev?)
  • What are there 3 biggest problems you solving for?
  • What’s it like working for your supervisor
  • How do you have your teams organized
  • How do you communicate with your teams
  • What’s the one or 2 things that are the most important things in your role
  • How would someone succeed in this role or what advice would you give
  • What makes this job awesome