For the DevOps consultant contract-based role, the first round of the interview covered questions on Git basics and problem solving, as well as AWS-related questions about handling sudden spikes in traffic. There were also inquiries about networking, monitoring, and scenario-based troubleshooting tasks. The second round of the interview covered questions related to infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline setup, and maintenance. Docker basics were also discussed, including the concept of docker layers and the differences between docker and virtual machines. Both the interviews focused heavily on troubleshooting and monitoring as they were seeking someone capable of handling on-call responsibilities.