Interview
Questions

Walk me through a complex cloud migration project you led. What was your approach to planning, what challenges did you face, and how did you ensure minimal disruption to the business?

Describe a situation where you had to choose between AWS, Azure, GCP, or a multi-cloud approach. What factors influenced your decision, and how did you present the recommendation to stakeholders?

Tell me about a time you significantly reduced cloud costs without sacrificing performance or reliability. What strategies did you use, and what was the measurable impact?

Describe a time you had to explain a complex cloud architecture or migration plan to non-technical executives. How did you ensure they understood the trade-offs and risks involved?

Tell me about an architecture you designed for high availability and disaster recovery. What were the key decisions, and how did you test your DR capabilities?

Describe how you have implemented security and compliance requirements in a cloud architecture. How did you balance security controls with developer productivity and business agility?

Tell me about a time you worked with development, operations, and security teams to design and implement a cloud solution. How did you manage different perspectives and priorities?

Describe a situation where you had to make difficult trade-offs in your cloud architecture - for example, between cost, performance, and complexity. How did you evaluate the options?

Tell me about a time you designed or improved cloud infrastructure to handle significant scale - whether traffic spikes, data growth, or global expansion. What approach did you take?

How do you approach the trade-off between leveraging cloud-native services and avoiding vendor lock-in? Describe a situation where this was a key consideration in your architecture decisions.

Describe a time you had to drive organizational change to adopt new cloud practices or technologies. How did you get buy-in, and what resistance did you encounter?

Tell me about a time you inherited or accumulated technical debt in cloud infrastructure. How did you identify it, prioritize remediation, and balance it against new feature work?

Describe a significant cloud infrastructure incident or outage you dealt with. What was your role in the response, and what architectural changes did you make to prevent recurrence?

Cloud technologies evolve rapidly. How do you stay current with new services, best practices, and architectural patterns? Give an example of how learning something new improved your work.

What drew you to cloud architecture as a career path? What do you find most rewarding about designing and building cloud solutions, and what excites you about the future of cloud computing?