I interviewed someone for a Senior DevOps Engineer position earlier this week. We don’t do coding exercises for this position, but we’re unlikely to hire someone for Senior roles who can’t convince us they can automate a project without help. Non-Senior roles don’t need Python coding experience, but it helps.

I asked questions about experience coding with Python and shell scripts, and experience creating and managing infrastructure with Terraform. So far we haven’t found a good candidate for Senior.