DevOps Institute: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practitioner
Foster a thriving Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture across your organization.
Modern organizations face increasing complexity and a rapid pace of change, which raises the likelihood of system outages and service disruptions. To meet these challenges, IT teams must enhance service reliability and build resilient systems. As automation and observability become central to enabling faster and more efficient deployments, the role of SRE has rapidly emerged as a vital enterprise function, combining engineering principles with operations best practices to manage services at scale.
The DevOps Institute’s SRE Practitioner℠ course offers hands-on guidance for effectively embedding and scaling SRE practices within your organization. Designed as the next step after the SRE Foundation℠ certification, this 3-day program delivers practical insights into implementing a strong and sustainable SRE culture.
Who Should Attend?
- IT leaders & managers
- Organizational change leaders and agents
- SRE engineeers
- System Integrators
- Business Stakeholders
- DevOps Practitioners
- System Integrators
- Scrum Masters/Product Owners
- Software Engineers
What You’ll Learn
- Practical view of how to successfully implement a flourishing SRE culture in your organization
- The underlying principles of SRE and an understanding of what it is not in terms of antipatterns
- Organizational impact of introducing SRE. SLIs and SLOs in a distributed ecosystem and extending the usage of Error Budgets
- Building security and resilience by design in a distributed, zero-trust environment
- Implementing full-stack observability, distributed tracing and Observability-driven development culture
- Curating data using AI to move from reactive to proactive and predictive incident management
- Using DataOps to build clean data lineage
- Why Platform Engineering is important in building consistency and predictability
- Implementing practical Chaos Engineering
- Major incident response responsibilities
- SRE Execution model
Course Objectives
At the end of the course, the following learning objectives are expected to be
achieved:
- A practical view of how to successfully implement a flourishing SRE culture in your
organization. - The underlying principles of SRE and an understanding of what it is not in terms of
anti-patterns, and how you become aware of them to avoid them. - The organizational impact of introducing SRE.
- Acing the art of SLIs and SLOs in a distributed ecosystem and extending the usage of
Error Budgets beyond the normal to innovate and avoid risks - Building security and resilience by design in a distributed, zero-trust environment.
- How do you implement full stack observability, and distributed tracing and bring about
an Observability-driven development culture? - Curating data using AI to move from reactive to proactive and predictive incident
management. Also, how do you use DataOps to build clean data lineage? - Why is Platform Engineering so important in building consistency and predictability of
SRE culture? - Implementing practical Chaos Engineering.
- Major incident response responsibilities for an SRE based on incident command
framework, and examples of the anatomy of unmanaged incidents. - The perspective of why SRE can be considered the purest implementation of DevOps.
- SRE Execution model
- Understanding the SRE role and understanding why reliability is everyone’s problem.
- SRE success story learnings
Benefits
- Implementing SRE and DevOps in the right way leads to higher Business Value
- Enhanced stability and reliability of services
- Major improvement of the product in the development, deployment, and operations life-cycle
- The increased balance between technical investment in reliability and customer experience
- Homogenous culture and greater synchronization between product, development, and operational teams Improvements in staff morale and retention
- Higher understanding of the practical implementation of SRE culture
- Designing services for higher security and reliability
- Building fault-tolerant distributed ecosystems that can be tested for risks of disaster
- Building observability and intelligence in operations
- Broader skills-based capabilities that leverage the latest in automation
- Higher understanding of other roles and contributing towards creating a better workplace culture
Prerequisites
It is highly recommended that learners attend the SRE Foundation course with an accredited DevOps Institute Education Partner and earn the SRE Foundation certification prior to attending the SRE Practitioner course and exam. An understanding and knowledge of common SRE terminology, concepts, principles, and related work experience is recommended.
Certification Exam
Successfully passing (65%) the 90-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions leads to the SRE Practitioner certificate. The certification is governed and maintained by DevOps Institute.
