Site Reliability Engineer
Qualifications
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- B.Tech Software Engineering
- M.Sc. Information Technology
- M.Tech Software Engineering
- MCA Computer Science and Engineering
- Certificate Site Reliability Engineering
Tasks
- Design, code, test and deliver software to automate manual operational work
- Troubleshoot priority incidents, facilitate blameless post-incident evaluations and ensure permanent closure of incidents
- Engage with development teams throughout the life cycle to help develop software for reliability and scale, ensuring minimal refactoring or changes
- Identify application patterns and analytics in support of better service level objectives
- Design self-healing and resiliency patterns
- Design performance tests, identify bottlenecks and opportunities for optimization and capacity demands, and present solutions for continuous improvements
- Design best in class monitoring frameworks to accomplish end-to-end flow monitoring and noiseless alerting
- Design automated software and product upgrades, change management and release management solutions
- Coach or manage teams as applicable
- Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) works between development and operations. The SRE, then, is a software developer with experience in and knowledge of IT operations.
Progression Routes
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