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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practitioner℠
Today’s organizations deal with a higher volume of change in a more complex tech environment leading to a higher risk of outages and incidents. IT teams must improve service reliability and system resiliency. With automation and observability becoming key factors for more efficient and rapid deployments, the SRE profile has become one of the fastest-growing enterprise roles and set of operational practices for managing services at scale.
To maintain the highest quality learning for our community, DevOps Institute Certifications expire two years from the date of completion. Members can maintain their certification by participating in the Continuing Education Program and earning Continuing Education Units through participation in learning opportunities.
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
Benefits for Organizations
- Implementing SRE and DevOps in the right way leading to higher Business Value
- Enhanced stability and reliability of services
- Major improvement of the product in the development, deployment and operations life-cycle
- 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
Benefits for Individuals
- Higher understanding of 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
Certification Details
Earn a credential that can lead to jobs in high growth fields
Certification Validity: 3 Years*
*Due to the recent acquisition of DevOps Institute by PeopleCert, certifications completed on the PeopleCert exam platform will have a validity period of 3 years from their date of issue as per PeopleCert’s Continuing Professional Development program.
Learn more about our Continuing Education Program and recertification requirements to help you stay current with your skills and certifications.
Preparation: Instructor-Led Training, Online Learning, Self-Study
Qualify for In-Demand Jobs
Business Managers and Business Stakeholders
System Integrators Tool Providers
IT Directors
IT Managers
IT Team Leaders
Change Agents and Consultants
DevOps Practitioners
Product Owners
Scrum Masters
Software Engineers
Site Reliability Engineers
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“To support the growing need for SRE professionals with advanced skills, DevOps Institute is excited to release the SRE Practitioner certification as a follow-on to the popular Foundation certification to validate knowledge and understanding of advanced SRE practices, methods and tools for those focused on large-scale service scalability and reliability.”
-Rinku Sachdeva, Director of Learning and Certification Products, DevOps Institute
Certification Blueprint
Check out the Certification Blueprint to learn more about the various topics, principles, and practices covered by this certification.
DevOps Institute Certification Pathways
Choose the path that is right for your career.
DevOps Leader
DevOps leaders sponsor, educate, motivate and monitor their DevOps teams.
IT Operations Professional
IT Operations Professional supports software reliability, automation, and more.
SRE Leader
SRE leaders sponsor, educate, motivate and
monitor their SRE teams.
Developer
Developers design, implement, package, test and deploy software.
DevOps Engineer
DevOps engineers automate processes and collaborate with others.
SRE Engineer
SREs use engineering practices to assures services reliability at scale.
DevOps Tester
Testers plan, create, execute, report and
analyze software tests.
Security Engineer
Security engineers collaborate to inform
security practices.
DevOps Consultant
DevOps consultants advise DevOps and SRE strategies and practices.
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