These days most of the organizations can not operate without IT.
The systems and processes they support are so critical, their infrastructure has to be reliable. Therefore, we need SRE engineers to set up a process and develop highly reliable and scalable systems. Their main objective is to make the process and system – accountable for the availability, performance, effectiveness, emergency response, and monitoring of the application.
At a higher level, we can say, the SRE eningeers serves as a bridge between development teams and operations teams of the organizations, empowering the dev team to bring new releases to the production frequently and as quickly as possible, while also ensuring an agreed-upon acceptable level of IT operations performance and error risk in line with the service level agreements (SLAs) the organization has in place with its clients or end users.
So what attributes makes you a great SRE engineer? Here we have mentioned top 10 attributes which SRE engineers use to have:-
1. They understand the fundamentals:- Great SREs use to have a good understanding of what lies below the abstractions. You can not identify and propose a solution to a deadlock if you do not understand the concurrency, or understand why a database is slowing down without understanding the data structures used and computer architecture.
2. Strong understanding of all-around engineers:- Great SREs are strong in technicals who happen to really enjoy reliability engineering and have the personality for the role.
3. Enjoy debugging:- Debugging is usually an undervalued and under-honed expertise that great SREs hold and enjoy using.
4. Good understanding of tools:- A great SRE takes pride in their toolset and knows how to use and build tools.
5. Good code readers:- Great SREs can promptly dive into and navigate an unfamiliar codebase.
6. Grasps complex machines:- SREs have to keep large systems in their head to develop good analytical skills and intuition about probable root causes of problems.
7. Bias towards many small projects:- SREs tend to prefer having many short-duration projects with occasional longer projects, more so than the average engineer.
8. More fascinated than annoyed by failures:- SREs watch things break every day, and its easier if they’re fascinated by watching things break rather than becoming overly jaded and cynical.
9. Bias towards excitement:- Great SREs tend to be a bit more adrenaline-fueled than the average engineer.
10. Team-oriented mindset:- A great SRE doesn’t have an us-vs-them mentality from the outset. (And a great dev team doesn’t, either).
Getting into site reliability engineering can be a great way to enhance your career possibilities. Good knowledge of SRE discipline, tools, best practices, and benefits can prepare you to take on more responsibilities in your organization, as well as it will make you prepare for the higher-tier positions.
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