Building an SRE Team? How to Hire, Assess, & Manage SREs
Are you considering adopting SRE? We will explain the roles and responsibilities of an SRE team within your organization, and how to start building one.
So what does an SRE team do? An SRE team is responsible for building software that improves the resiliency of systems, implementing fixes, responding to incidents, and automating processes whenever possible.
Site reliability engineering is a holistic practice that incorporates various types of work. So, site reliability engineers play many roles within an organization. Here are some of the major roles, and the typical duties of each. An SRE will likely have responsibilities that fit into several of these categories.
SREs can help develop your codebase with a perspective that focuses on reliability. SRE advocates making reliability feature No. 1. When designing the specifications for a product or feature, SREs will include reliability standards. Site reliability engineers will then help keep development focused on meeting that goal. SREs can help prioritize development efforts by establishing SLOs, or service level objectives, an important reliability metric.
Daily responsibilities: SREs work on the codebase like other engineers. They’ll likely focus on system architecture, as this is often the code with the highest potential to impact reliability. They’ll need to understand how changes on one layer of the system affects the reliability of the rest. As such, they’ll have to take on a big-picture perspective.
