A DevOps / SRE interview kit for engineering hiring teams running incident-response simulations, infrastructure-design exercises, and on-call scenarios in Taskade.
What's Included
- Incident Response Simulation: AI agent plays a P0 incident; candidate runs response
- Infrastructure Design Exercise: Real architecture problem; candidate proposes scalable solution
- Runbook Craft Agent: Candidate's runbook draft scored for completeness, clarity, edge cases
- On-Call Scenario: 3am page; candidate walks through diagnosis and escalation
- Panel Aggregation: SRE lead + senior eng + on-call peer scores
Why This Template Wins
- Incident craft testable in 30 min: Strong SREs stay calm and structured
- Runbook quality predicts on-call effectiveness
- Architecture thinking reveals depth beyond resume
How to Use
- Clone this template into your Taskade workspace
- Customize architecture problem to your stack
- Connect PagerDuty, GitHub, your ATS
- Train the Incident Roleplay Agent on your past incident patterns
- Set up automation triggers for panel scheduling
FAQ
Does this work for SRE vs platform-eng vs DevOps roles?
Yes. SRE emphasizes reliability; platform-eng emphasizes developer experience; DevOps emphasizes pipeline.
Can the agent test cloud-platform fluency?
Yes. AWS, GCP, Azure-specific scenarios run via the architecture exercise.
What plan supports SRE hiring?
Pro ($10/mo annual) handles the team. Business ($25/mo) adds incident-history retention.
CTA
Try this template free in Taskade. For PagerDuty setup, see /learn/automation/automations-execution. Pair with IT Operations SOP. Browse engineering apps in the Community Gallery.