Site Reliability Engineer¶

Duration: 16–24 weeks · Difficulty: advanced · Badge: SRE

Reliability, observability, incident response, and production operations at scale.

Complete roadmap¶

Target audience¶

Engineers who want the Site Reliability Engineer skill profile and job outcomes below.

Job roles¶

Site Reliability Engineer
Production Engineer
Reliability Engineer

Expected salary ranges¶

Mid to senior SRE roles — treat as directional guidance only.

Prerequisites¶

Comfort with a laptop and a terminal
Complete earlier phases before later ones when marked ready
Prefer the Getting Started overview if you are new to the academy

Phases¶

Foundations¶

Linux — ready · 25 tutorials
Networking — ready · 25 tutorials
Python for DevOps — ready · 27 tutorials
Git — ready · 20 tutorials

Platform¶

Kubernetes — ready · 20 tutorials
Terraform — ready · 20 tutorials
GitLab CI/CD — ready · 20 tutorials

Observability¶

Prometheus — planned
Grafana — planned
Loki — planned
Tempo — planned
OpenTelemetry — planned
Site Reliability Engineering — planned

Skills gained¶

Ordered mastery of the technologies on this path
Hands-on labs and production-oriented habits
Interview and certification readiness for mapped exams

Projects¶

See the Projects catalog and Capstones. Map picks to this path’s technologies.

Capstone¶

Choose a capstone that exercises the final phases of this path (for example Status API for DevOps / Kubernetes, or the Python automation framework for AI for DevOps).

Interview roadmap¶

Finish ready technology tracks on this path
Use Interview Guides per technology
Rehearse troubleshooting stories from labs

Certification roadmap¶

CKA, PCA

Estimated duration¶

16–24 weeks of focused study (tutorials + labs). Stretch if you are new to Linux or cloud.