DevOps / SRE Engineer

Engineering DevOps SRE Paid assignment

A reliability-focused process for DevOps and SRE hires that screens for incident judgment and real infrastructure work instead of certifications and trivia.

Why this works:

Incident scenarios test the error-budget and troubleshooting reasoning that actually predicts on-call performance
A paid IaC and pipeline-debugging assignment shows operational skill, not resume keywords
Two focused interviews keep the loop short; strong infrastructure candidates drop off after round three
The on-call conversation is explicit, because rotation health decides whether the hire stays

Best for: DevOps Engineers, SREs, and infrastructure-minded platform engineers
Timeline: ~2 weeks
Candidate effort: 5-7 hours (paid)
Before you publish: point the infrastructure assignment stage at a GitHub template repository.

Process stages

This template includes 7 stages that candidates move through:

Application

Submit Application

Tell us about the systems you’ve run in production and what you want to own here.

Incident Scenarios

Questionnaire

Three short production scenarios. There are no trick answers; we want to see how you reason about failure under pressure.

3 questions

Infrastructure Assignment

Code Assignment

A scoped, paid take-home in a real repository: debug a broken CI/CD pipeline and review a small Terraform configuration for cost and security issues. You’ll be paid $500 USD regardless of outcome.

USD 500

Assignment Review

Team Review

Our engineers review your assignment against a shared rubric and vote.

Technical Deep Dive

Interview

We’ll walk through your assignment together, then go deeper on pipeline design, SLOs, and observability. No whiteboard puzzles.

75 min

On-Call & Culture

Interview

An honest conversation about how we run on-call, incidents, and postmortems, and whether the team works the way you want to work. Ask us anything, including rotation size and alert quality.

45 min

Offer

We move fast once the panel decides. Expect an offer within 48 hours of your final interview.