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PeoplePractitioner1 min read

How do you write the job description and prepare the interview?

Pick an observability or reliability profile, a level and your context: the generator proposes a structured job description and an interview plan with questions, expectations and a grid, to adapt and then copy.

For: team managers · executives and CIOsPrerequisites: None. The choices offered are explained in [Which profiles should you hire?](/en/people/observability-roles/).

Reading mode

Illustrative scenario: the head of a platform team must post an opening before the end of the month. She reuses a competitor’s ad, which lists fifteen tools. Applications pour in, almost all off target. What was missing was not a tool but a sentence: the problem the new hire was supposed to solve.

The generator assembles a job description and an interview plan from a few choices. It follows the approach of the hiring series: profiles, the job description, the interview and the first 90 days. It runs in your browser and sends nothing.

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Context

A first draft to adapt: replace the brackets, check the figures, have it reread by someone in a similar role.

Job description

Interview plan

Things to try

Section titled “Things to try”
  1. Choose “SRE” then tick on-call: the job description states the frequency and the plan adds a question on noisy alerts.
  2. Untick “compensated”: the job description flags it in brackets, because in France on-call compensation is mandatory.
  3. Switch from “Mid-level” to “Senior”: the scope of decisions and the grid’s bar change, not the list of tools.
  4. Tick “AI assistants in production” with a profile other than AI observability: a goal and a question on answer quality are added.

What the generator does not do

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It does not set pay: that depends on your job market and must come from a recent salary survey. It does not replace a review by someone in the job, nor by HR, who know your collective agreement and your on-call arrangements.