Foundation 5 Days · Instructor-Led

Site Reliability Engineer Training Course

Hands-on SRE fundamentals for DevOps and cloud engineers.

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Duration

5 Days

Level

Foundation

Format

Instructor-Led

Certification

SRESchool

About this course

This 5-day instructor-led training course provides a comprehensive foundation in Site Reliability Engineering. You will learn the core SRE principles, practice with real tools, and build the skills needed to operate and improve reliable production systems. The course prepares you for the Certified Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE) certification.

Prerequisites

•Basic understanding of Linux and command-line tools
•Familiarity with cloud computing concepts (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
•Some experience with software development or operations
•No prior SRE experience required

Who should attend

DevOps Engineers transitioning to SRE
Cloud Engineers building reliability skills
Operations Engineers moving into SRE
Software Engineers expanding into reliability work
System Administrators moving to cloud/SRE
IT professionals establishing SRE fundamentals

What you will learn

Explain SRE principles and their relationship to DevOps and software engineering

Define SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs for production services

Implement monitoring, logging, and observability using modern tooling

Manage incidents effectively from detection to postmortem

Identify and automate toil to improve operational efficiency

Apply SRE practices in real production environments

5-Day Course Agenda

Day 1: Foundations of Site Reliability Engineering

Introduction to Site Reliability EngineeringSRE principles and the SRE bookSRE vs DevOps: key differencesUnderstanding Service Level Objectives (SLOs), SLAs, and SLIsError budgets and how to use themSRE culture and the reliability mindset

Day 2: Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting

The three pillars of observability: metrics, logs, tracesMonitoring vs observabilityBuilding effective dashboardsAlert design: reducing noise and improving signalOn-call runbooks and escalation pathsHands-on: Setting up Prometheus + Grafana monitoring

Day 3: Incident Management and Root Cause Analysis

Incident lifecycle: detection, response, resolution, reviewRoles in incident response: incident commander, comms leadRoot cause analysis techniquesWriting blameless postmortemsIncident management tools and workflowsHands-on: Incident simulation exercise

Day 4: Automation, Toil Reduction, and Infrastructure as Code

Defining and measuring toilAutomation frameworks for SREInfrastructure as Code with TerraformConfiguration management best practicesRunbook automationHands-on: Automating a common operational task

Day 5: Scaling, Capacity Planning, and SRE in Your Organization

Capacity planning fundamentalsDesigning fault-tolerant systemsLoad testing and performance optimizationImplementing SRE practices in your organizationReal-world case studiesCSRE certification exam preparation and Q&A

Hands-on Labs

Setting up Prometheus metrics collection
Building a Grafana dashboard for service monitoring
Configuring alerting rules and on-call notifications
Incident simulation tabletop exercise
Writing a blameless postmortem
Automating a toil-heavy operational task
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform basics

Tools Covered

PrometheusGrafanaPagerDutyTerraformKubernetesDatadog (overview)SlackJira/OpsgenieBash scripting

Career outcomes

Site Reliability EngineerProduction EngineerReliability EngineerObservability EngineerPlatform EngineerDevOps Engineer

Course FAQs

The Site Reliability Engineer Training Course is a 5 Days instructor-led training program.

Instructor-Led, Virtual, On-Site (Corporate).

Basic understanding of Linux and command-line tools Familiarity with cloud computing concepts (AWS, GCP, or Azure) Some experience with software development or operations No prior SRE experience required

Yes. This course is the recommended preparation for the undefined (undefined) certification.

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