I wanted to point to this podcast appearance by my colleague @molly_struve, DEV's Lead SRE.
It's not always clear when and how to make a career leap, and I feel like this episode covers that in spades and gives a lot of insight into what qualities might make site reliability engineering right for you.
Happy coding!
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Yes! Starting on April 🙂 very excited.
The way I see it is that SRE is closer to business logic and consulted in feature development concerns whereas devops is closer to the metal, and underlying operations.
Becoming an SRE is part of my 5 year plan. ❤️
That is so true. DevOps is firstly culture, only then processes and tools 🙂
I didn't consider it, I just kind of ended up in it! 😃 But its been pretty awesome so far! I've been at it about 2 years now.
I have not considered a career in SRE because I like to come up with solutions to problems customers/users deal with directly. As a Mechanical Engineer, I wanted to do the same thing. I feel like SRE is more like maintenance/utilities is for ME which I have never been interested in.
I still have a lot to learn though, so we’ll see ☺️
It seems like you're on a great path with your more user-facing work!
Sounds like you are suited to be a Solutions Architect 🚀
I have considered it a lot of time and would really love to transition soon. However, starting and getting detailed knowledge aside from the google published resource, has been really hard.
I try as much as possible to carry out some basic things in my pet projects. eg, containerizing the applications, adding metrics, using prometheus and grafana for visualization, trying to learn about reporting and all.
But it's depressing if done without the needed scale and motivation.
I'll appreciate any resource/help i can get though.