Reliability engineering
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs services and operating practices around explicit reliability risks.
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Infrastructure and operations
Site Reliability Engineer
Applies software engineering to production reliability, scalable operations, and evidence-based service objectives.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
93%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 7
- Published coverage
- 7
- Relevant courses
- 38
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Reliability practice
3 capabilities
Service-level objectives
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Defines service indicators, objectives, and error-budget policies.
Course coverage
Incident management
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Coordinates detection, mitigation, communication, and learning during incidents.
Course coverage
- Incident Management
- On-Call Engineering
- Post-Incident Reviews
- ML Incident Response and Alerting (planned)
02
Production systems
4 capabilities
Observability
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Uses telemetry to investigate system behavior and protect reliability.
Course coverage
- Observability FundamentalsFree
- Application Performance Monitoring
- Cloud Native Observability
- Distributed Tracing
- Fluentd
- Jaeger
- Kubernetes Observability
- Logging Fundamentals
- Metrics Fundamentals
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus Fundamentals
- Real User Monitoring
- Synthetic Monitoring
- ML Observability Tooling, eBPF Observability (planned)
Production operations
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Operates distributed services safely through change and failure.
Automation
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Eliminates repetitive operational work with maintainable software.
Course coverage
Container orchestration
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Diagnoses and operates orchestrated production workloads.
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Ansible Fundamentals
- Application Performance Monitoring
- Argo Rollouts
- Blameless Engineering Culture
- Business Continuity for IT
- Cloud Native Observability
- Disaster Recovery
- Distributed Tracing
- Fluentd
- Infrastructure Capacity Planning
- Infrastructure Operations Fundamentals
- Infrastructure Performance Engineering
- Introduction to SwampFree
- Jaeger
- Kubernetes FundamentalsFree
- Kubernetes Networking
- Kubernetes Observability
- Kubernetes Operations
- Kubernetes Scheduling
- Kubernetes Workloads
- Logging Fundamentals
- Metrics Fundamentals
- OpenTelemetry
- Post-Incident Reviews
- Prometheus Fundamentals
- Real User Monitoring
- Resilience Engineering
- Synthetic Monitoring
- Systems Troubleshooting
- ML Incident Response and Alerting, ML Observability Tooling (planned)
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
- Chaos Engineering
- eBPF Observability (planned)
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