SRE Job Role – Activities and Responsibilities
A lot has been said about site reliability engineering, what it is, what it is not, and the multiple practices and techniques that we should apply to adopt the site reliability engineering model. Who site reliability engineers (SREs) are is often put aside even though it is a crucial aspect. Moreover, how people from various parts of information technology (IT) become SREs and how some of them are recognized as thought leaders in this domain.
However, little has been said about the site reliability engineer persona, as detailed in the following list:
- What do they know?
- Which skills have they developed?
- What do they do daily?
- What are their primary responsibilities?
Those characteristics would explain, at a bare minimum, why someone should start the journey to becoming an SRE rockstar. That’s precisely why we decided to start this book by outlining the SRE job role.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Making this journey personal
- Understanding the mindset and hobbies of an SRE
- DevOps engineers versus SRE versus others
- Describing an SRE’s main responsibilities
- An overview of the daily activities of an SRE
- People that inspire
