2 min lesson
Infrastructure as Code for IT
Give a practical answer to this. "Your team currently configures Okta and Google Workspace by hand in their admin consoles. Make the case for moving to infrastructure-as-code and name one honest limitation."
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Infrastructure as code isn't named in the job description, but it is how you deliver two lines that are: "design automated workflows that eliminate manual processes" and "lead IT systems integration and modernization efforts." The interviewer wants to hear that your Okta config, your Google Workspace settings and your fleet baselines live in Git and ship through a pull request, instead of living in someone's memory of which checkbox they clicked.
Click-ops is the failure mode this role exists to kill. When an SSOSingle Sign-On. One company login (usually via SAML or OIDC) instead of a separate password per tool. Press Enter for the full definition. app is configured by hand, there's no review, no history of who changed the assertion attribute and no way to recreate it after a bad edit. Config-as-code gives you the same disciplines engineers already have for application code.