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Compliance Automation and Tooling Questions

Using technology to scale and continuously enforce compliance and privacy. Covers GRC platforms, compliance-as-code, continuous control monitoring, automated evidence collection, and integrating compliance and privacy checks into engineering pipelines. Focuses on how tooling reduces manual effort and enables continuous rather than point-in-time assurance.

MediumTechnical
39 practiced
How would you implement least privilege for Kubernetes service accounts using RBAC and OPA Gatekeeper? Describe how to design roles, bind them safely, write admission control policies to prevent privilege escalation, and a rollout plan to retrofit an existing cluster with minimal disruption.
MediumSystem Design
39 practiced
Design an audit logging and retention architecture that provides tamper evidence, supports long term retention for compliance, and enables forensic search across multiple clouds. Describe storage tiers, indexing strategy, access controls, cost management, and how you would prove logs were not altered.
EasyTechnical
54 practiced
Explain how service level objectives and error budgets interact with security and compliance work. Provide examples where strict security controls could consume error budget or slow releases and describe how SREs should make trade off decisions between safety and velocity.
HardTechnical
45 practiced
Given a stream of thousands of vulnerability findings daily from multiple scanners, design an automated prioritization algorithm for SRE teams. Explain inputs such as CVSS, exploit maturity, asset criticality, public exposure, compensating controls, and how automation should triage, schedule patch windows, and escalate critical findings.
EasyTechnical
41 practiced
Provide a practical summary of how GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC2, and ISO 27001 differ in their expectations for infrastructure controls. For each framework give one example control SREs must implement and explain briefly how it influences architecture or operations.

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