handbook/handbook-main/guides/hiring/devops_pairing.txt

DevOps pairing works similarly to [regular pairing](./pairing.md)
Please [read the regular pairing document](./pairing.md) before this one

## Goals

- Our DevOps pairing process is designed to simulate solving a real problem in a delivery.
Therefore work should be done on an actual cloud account so that the pair can work past unexpected problems

- We insist on using infrastructure as code so that interviews can demonstrate these skills as this is often always used in a delivery

## Preparing to pair
The DevOps pairing process needs a little more preparation than normal
- For pairing in AWS [you will need a cloud account to use](../cloud/aws_sandbox.md)
- Use [this terraform project](https://github.com/madetech/devops-pairing-terraform) to create temporary credentials for the pair

## Writing code together
Please use one of [these scenarios](https://learn.madetech.com/technology/scenarios/cloud/) for the interview pairing exercise.

## Ending the pairing session
When there are five minutes left in the session:
- Start to Destroy the resources created in the session
- While this is happening, it's good to ask how they thought the interview went, what they would change, how they would write tests to ensure the infrastructure has deployed correctly etc.