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That is in alignment with the work I have done as a “devops” person. I have also worked as doing primarily backend development.

The single-most useful skill I have used is problem solving in an unknown context. Knowledge of architecture patterns help a lot in both cases. There have been times when I have had to read code just to figure things out.

There was a technical interview for a devops role I did recently. Whomever designed it was brilliant: a deceptively simple task (install an obscure blogging platform and get it running) with many hidden landmines and gotchas, compressed into 45 mins. Just another day at work.