Site Reliability Engineering

The role of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems and applications. Originating from Google, the SRE role blends software engineering with operations to create highly reliable systems. Key responsibilities include:
Application Support: Provides monitoring and management of cloud-hosted applications.Offers performance tuning and troubleshooting.

• System Reliability: Ensuring systems are stable, available, and performant by managing uptime and resolving incidents quickly.
• Automation: Reducing manual toil by automating repetitive tasks, such as deployments, monitoring, and scaling.
• Performance Optimization: Monitoring system performance and proactively identifying areas for improvement to enhance user experience.
• Incident Management: Responding to outages, conducting root cause analyses, and implementing solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Building robust monitoring systems and actionable alerts to detect and address issues before they impact users.
• Capacity Planning: Predicting and planning for system growth to ensure resources are sufficient and scalable.
• Collaboration: Working closely with development and operations teams to align on reliability goals, sharing expertise to improve system design and deployment.
• Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Defining and measuring reliability targets to balance innovation with stability.