Interview with a Site Reliability Engineer

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I'm interviewing a friend and coworker who is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). She's been doing some form of DevOps for many years now, and has a LOT of experience that's relevant to early- and mid-career folks.
0:00 Introduction
1:28 SRE and Devops Project Work
3:05 Company Size and Specialization
5:24 Jobs before tech
6:00 Getting into tech
6:50 University Degree and Skills
8:20 Why get into tech?
9:29 Dave's passion ninja 10x engineer rant
10:06 Applying to tech jobs
10:50 Experience as a Tech Apprentice
12:51 Advice: Starting from Zero
14:00 Core Skill: Solo Learning
15:27 Most interesting DevOps/SRE work
18:11 Different company cultures
19:13 Ideal company culture
22:52 Surprises when getting into tech
24:54 It's OK not to know everything
26:10 Skills that new tech people neglect
29:54 Tech skills that people neglect
32:35 Where is DevOps going in the future?
34:27 "I think it could get weird"
38:00 It's crazy to "plan" for the future
39:00 Erin's final advice to new tech people

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@eddblake 3 жыл бұрын

I love that you didn’t edit the ‘I will edit this out’ parts. really refreshing video!

@supriyanegi4963 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this definitely lifts my motivation . At times I would look at job description it is like 5years in CI/CD , AWS certified , 5years of professional experience...etc and job role is for "Entry level" ..just makes no sense at all.

@tutoriaLinux 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, avoid those companies. Tons of jobs out there to apply to!

@UsernamesSuckHere 3 жыл бұрын

This is amazing. She went from social media/office job to SRE

@KaustubhMaliintothewild 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you once again. Just felt like I was there with you guys and having a chat in mind. 😅 Felt more ambitious suddenly for some reason. I like your videos and content related to DevOps overall

@theav.1313 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this! I needed to see this video!

@kevinbonilla3655 3 жыл бұрын

Love the fun insight these podcasts/interviews provide! I find it super entertaining and informative as a recent graduate and full timer in the "DevOps" industry.

@sriraagsridhar2011 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the video .. thanks for this.. P.S Even I feel all this abstraction of layers built to make things easier for us is actually kinda putting lot of us in a position where we don't know how it works under the hood and in the future those are the roles which might be in deman imho .. Thanks again I've always enjoyed watching your videos!!

@eftiprwtopapadakis9310 3 жыл бұрын

Is it me or i feel that in the last years with the new shiny names on various job roles like at first "Dev Ops" and now "Site Reliability Engineer" its just that companies want their new candidate to do everything in a value for money salary?! It sounds more like be our programmer, be our network guy and be our System Administrator.

@DIGI8DJ Жыл бұрын

Facebook calls it ‘Production Engineer’. I interviewed couple of times for that position.

@adishar21 Жыл бұрын

🤦🏻

@MVPMoe4ever Жыл бұрын

First time seeing this. this was fun and enlightening. Thank you. You also made it fun.

@hdotalam278 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your views and experiences. As someone like me who is trying to get into devops by learning it on my own it is very reassuring to know how you got to where you have.

@kc-me6wl 2 жыл бұрын

exactly where i am right now as realising my current role no longer exist in the market...

@Usertrappedindatabase 3 жыл бұрын

had to pause at around 25:37. hit me in the feels. Just like being able to step back and realize it's fine to feel kinda lost. I was having a major issue using Neomutt(basically a curses terminal email program) and it was just a simple configuration file but I was kinda overworking myself and thought it was some deep serious issue with my actual smtp mail server on debian.. There's a weird balance of good stress vs unhealthy stress. like light a fire under ur butt, getting it done, synthwave/techno blasting, boss mode vs yelling silently at a weird /etc/ config that keeps changing. really enjoying these interviews, your videos have definitely been in my top 3 of most helpful. tl;dr: It's okay Fren. remember to walk, look at sunshine, pet doge. screaming quietly is never the answer.

@leonae.6379 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing interview!

@ratfuk9340 Жыл бұрын

Man "Code divers" actually sounds really interesting, I love the concept. Did you ever upload or publish that anywhere?

@kite2surf 3 жыл бұрын

Great insight.

@bezhanmukhidinov4054 3 жыл бұрын

I'm showing this to my wife and she is also into social media marketing, guess what, she is starting to learn DevOps 😃

@Sammyi 3 жыл бұрын

I showed your comment to my wife 👰😅 and she wants to get into devops now 🤓

@aksel58 2 ай бұрын

I struggle to find a devops job with 10y of the relevant experience in the industry, work authorization, certifications, experience in well known companies. Good luck.

@FabulousFadz 8 ай бұрын

21:53 The first time it happened to me I was completely stumped so I left early. The office was close to a movie theater. So I crossed the road and saw that there was something interesting so I went in. Halfway through the movie, I had an "Aha!" moment so I left the movie, got back to the office and wrote a bit of code... Tested and I had come up with the solution when I wasn't even trying anymore.

@maxsterling9908 2 жыл бұрын

I love HashiCorp products and I use them regularly. That's one place I would like to work. My current role is Systems Engineer on paper but my work is mostly is hybrid of SRE and DevOps. I was asking about level of Go needed for SRE role. I have experience with Python as I extended Openstack API to integrate with our disparate systems (LDAP/Kerberos authentication systems), however, I have not done anything concrete with Go. I asked one of HashiCorp SREs and he did not really reply to my question. I'm proactive as I enjoy learning and updating my skills. Also, can you let this lady know that you guys have a bug in your Azure API in Terraform implementation. When you assign security groups (NSGs) to subnets while creating a vnet (azurerm_virtual_network), only the first one works. It throws an error if you assign a security group to any other subnet. I had to resolve it by manually assigning NSGs to the remaining subnets in my VNET.

@marko3808 3 жыл бұрын

This is the kind of people I want to work with!

@grambharos 3 жыл бұрын

Being a jack of all trades 😊

@allthenamesaretak100 3 жыл бұрын

SRE's are some of the hardest working humans

@Techtips200 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff

@lesliekiszka8657 3 жыл бұрын

Hey look, two of my favs in one place and I don't have to tell either of you to go work on any tickets 😆

@samrybkin9184 2 жыл бұрын

Hi if you have a chance today to start from the zero in tech what you will choose now with all your experience ?

@tutoriaLinux 2 жыл бұрын

I'd start by making programming my main focus, and really get good at the computer science fundamentals. Then I'd add some infrastructure/cloud knowledge by playing with free accounts on those platforms and using terraform to manage stuff. Then I'd pick the currently "Hot" area of tech that matches my interests and background knowledge (security, infrastructure, web development, data science; whatever) and do some targeted learning to be able to start applying to jobs. Meanwhile I'd work whatever programming-related job I could find, while taking it easy enough that I could spend my free time learning. Maybe I'll think a bit harder about it and do a video.