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Tell me about a typical day in your current role at Intuit.
Resume & Behavioral · Basic level
Answer
A typical day mixes operational awareness, planned reliability work, and cross-team enablement. I start by checking service health, SLO burn, overnight alerts, failed deployments, and open incident actions. Then I work on planned items such as CI/CD improvements, IaC changes, Kubernetes or Istio rollout work, security remediation, datastore migration tasks, or observability improvements. I also spend time reviewing PRs, unblocking developers, mentoring engineers, and making sure production changes have dashboards, rollback, and clear ownership.
Technical explanation
This shows that your work is not purely reactive; senior SRE work balances interrupts with systematic reliability improvement.
Mentioning SLO burn, failed deploys, post-incident actions, and PR/design review signals operational maturity.
A lead-level answer should include mentoring and cross-team influence, not just tickets and alerts.
Hands-on example
1. Morning: review dashboards, SLO burn, high-priority alerts, deployment failures, and open incident follow-ups.
2. Midday: join standup, prioritize risk-based work, review Terraform or pipeline PRs, and unblock application teams.
3. Afternoon: test a rollout or migration in staging, update a runbook, and review metrics after a production change.
4. End of day: post concise status, risks, blockers, and next steps for async stakeholders.
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