STARR Bullets Flashcards
Give me an example of decision making
Situation: No consistency with HVR environment
Task: Bring existing builds to standard IAC
Action: Modify existing envs or migrate to new infrastructure
Result: All environments at latest standard
Reflection: Don’t get precious and hung-up on initial ideas
Give me an example of when you’ve shown leadership
Situation: Needed a cross-region design for Data migration as project was stalled
Task: Design a replication pattern for multiple business units and use cases
Action: Took control, decided that the existing design was too complicated, involved major upgrade and multiple repos. Re-designed architecture
Result: Builds were able to be handed over to delivery teams in a repeatable manner. Dates ended up being brought forward by business, latency targets hit
Reflection: Proved that I can influence the decision of projects and lead. Delivery teams can be engaged earlier
Give me an example of a success, something went well
Situation: No alerting when OEM maintenance occured
Task: Enable previous cron monitoring in Oracle on EC2 envs
Action: Worked with AWS managed services to create SSM documents and multi-acount automations. Invoked by Python tool
Result: OEM team could turn on/off cron monitoring around OEM maint
Reflection: Good project, introducing SSM to the team and working with multiple steakholders and AWS experts. Paved the way for more automations. Would have been good to folllow up with more automated testing on a regular occurence to ensure process still worked.
Give me an example of Team work
Situation: Business wanted to validate Oracle cloud at customer
Task: Small group had to validate Oracle’s cloud at customer API
Action: Worked in a small group with other leads. We created a Python testing framework to validate the key API functions.
Result: Tool highlighted a number of issues with the API and business pulled out of the project.
Reflection: Used unittest for the 1st time and got good hands on experience in Oracle C@C. Knowing when to lead and when to support.
Give me an example of working under pressure
Situation: Business was involved in POC for a BIG database replication project and the performance wasn’t acceptable
Task: Improve replication peformance within tight deadline
Action: Worked with vendor, AWS and TR internal teams to troubleshoot. Made several config changes, database, netowork. Split replication streams
Result: Latency brought down to accepted levels and POC signed-off by the business
Reflection: Learnt alot about HVR, the cheapest option isn’t always the best end-to-end. Always communicate the true picture, be honest with management
Give me an example of your Adaptability
Situation: Business needed to validate a replication tool for datacentre exit
Task: Setup and validate HVR replication tool in AWS
Action: Worked with vedor and AWS to setup infrastructure, performed data loads and tuned, became TR expert in HVR
Result: POC passed and contract signed
Reflection: Able to pull myself of other projects, jump into new areas and get up to speed quickly, build relationships and gain trust, showed how dedicated I was.
Give me an example of your strengths
Situation: We needed to align our builds with CI/CD processes
Task: Ensure that all future builds we delivered through CI/CD pipeline
Action: Work with multiple teams to setup build pipelines and refactor cloudformation templates and GIT repo
Result: We ended up with a well documented, repeatable process
Reflection: Highlighted my ability to jump into new areas and find out who the key steakholders are. Not too proud to get help from other devlopers when required.
Give me an example of a failure
Situation: self-service requirement for DB admin tasks
Task: Create a self-service tool using Snow for BU customers
Action: Worked with internal groups to create Snow forms, and workflows, ICO cloud orchestration workflows to invoke our scripts. Had to learn all of the new technology.
Result: A working solution but one that the customers were not ready for and still had a lot of performance issues due to SNOW limitations.
Reflection: Listen to the customers, get them involved early, have clearly defined user stories from the customers.
Give me an example of a Weaknesses - but something I’ve improved into a strength
Situation: Operations teams wanted more self service options for database admin
Task: To create more SNow forms and associated automations for DB
Action: Worked with SNow team and internal IBM cloud team to create self-service apps. IBM team were moving to a new architecture which required refactoring of code and the various technologies all had performance bottlenecks.
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