Optum DevOps Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Optum DevOps Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated weekly.

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Secrets in Disconnected Deploy Pipelines

Hard

Approach for managing build, deployment, and runtime secrets when a CI/CD pipeline promotes artifacts into a disconnected environment.

InfrastructureSecurityIdempotency

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Secure DevOps Data Pipelines

Medium

Approach for embedding security controls into data pipeline delivery, orchestration, and operations.

InfrastructureOrchestrationQuality

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Linked Lists vs Arrays

Easy

Compare arrays and linked lists by memory layout, access cost, and update performance, and explain when each is the better choice.

Linked ListsArraysSearching

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Data Structures for Search

Easy

Tests knowledge of data structures and their impact on performance in automation tasks.

Hash TablesSearchingData Structures

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Parse Logs for Error Codes

Medium

Tests scripting ability for log parsing and extracting actionable signals from operational data.

json parsingStringsloops

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Zero-Downtime Deployment Flow

Hard

Tests ability to design safe release strategies for data platform integrations.

data integrationzero downtimedeployment

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