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Site Reliability Engineer

Applies software engineering to production reliability, scalable operations, and evidence-based service objectives.

Skills
7
Published coverage
4
Awaiting publication
3

Skills

Reliability practice

  • Reliability engineering

    Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

    Designs services and operating practices around explicit reliability risks.

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  • Service-level objectives

    Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

    Defines service indicators, objectives, and error-budget policies.

    Course coverage

    • Courses planned (2)
  • Incident management

    Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

    Coordinates detection, mitigation, communication, and learning during incidents.

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    • Courses planned (3)

Production systems

  • Production operations

    Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

    Operates distributed services safely through change and failure.

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  • Automation

    Importance: Very important (4 of 5)

    Eliminates repetitive operational work with maintainable software.

    Course coverage

    • Course planned (1)
  • Container orchestration

    Importance: Very important (4 of 5)

    Diagnoses and operates orchestrated production workloads.

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