[Gllug] VACANCY: Site Reliability Engineering

[Christopher Hunter]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 11:15 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> 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
> administration, although sysadmin skills are a key part of an SRE's
> toolkit.

Sounds like the £44k offered is derisory, in that case.

C.

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