[Gllug] VACANCY: Site Reliability Engineering

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:52:11AM -0000, James wrote:
> 
> Because who'd want a sysadmin for a sysadmin role?

SRE isn't just a fancy name for sysadmin.  I think Google may have been
the first outfit to use the title but several of the big companies on
the Net are now using it and it means a lot more than plain sysadmin.
SREs are expected to have extensive understanding of network and web
protocols/technologies, of the fundamental principles of more than one
OS, of web application design and development, to have good
troubleshooting skills across all of these areas, to show initiative and
be able to predict and prevent problems that might otherwise cause
downtime.  The focus is (web) application support, not systems
administistration, although sysadmin skills are a key part of an SRE's
toolkit.

-- 
Bruce

Those who cast the votes decide nothing.  Those who count the
votes decide everything. -- Joseph Stalin
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