About SRE Certification
Overview
Site Reliability Engineering Training and Certification
Benefits of SRE Certification
For Individuals
- Learn how to get started in enhancing system reliability and resilience.
- Gain deep insights into the principles, practices and benefits of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Practice and master tools used in SRE to design and implement a reliable and resilient system.
- Effectively implement SRE practices within your organization to elevate performance.
- Understand what to measure, monitor and how to create meaningful reliability objectives.
For Organizations
- Having trained staff applying SRE practices will mean fewer outages, faster recovery times, and more resilient systems that maintain service availability.
- SRE will break down silos between development and operations, supporting a stronger DevOps culture.
- Teams are equipped with best practices in observability, root cause analysis, and proactive monitoring resulting in faster incident response.
- Increased customer trust and satisfaction through delivery of reliable systems and greater uptime.
- Offering SRE training shows commitment to technical excellence and career development, which will help to retain staff.
Useful links
Useful links
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SRE Fundamentals training
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SRE Certification levels
Videos
Videos
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - A mediator between two worlds
What is SRE Site Reliability Engineering - How developers look at operations - Midday Mentors
SFIA
This APMG certification has been informally mapped against the SFIA Framework to indicate the skills that are addressed and referenced by the certification. Although it is not yet possible to claim this digital badge, the indicative skills can be used to plan your professional development through assessing the skills you have and the skills you need for the role you want.
knowledge
Fundamentals
Generic attribute Knowledge up to level 3
Same as above plus IT infrastructure up to level 4, Systems and Software Life Cycle Engineering level 4
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