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Should your SREs be interested in Security?
An insecure Service is neither reliable nor safe.
Let’s explore this statement in a little more detail.
What is the role of SRE?
We can summarise the role of an SRE as ‘ensuring the smooth operation of a Service for its users.’ Of course, this ten-word simplification is not intended to detract from the fact that there are tools, processes and working practices, statistical analysis, and cultural aspects to running an effective SRE function within an organisation.
Site Reliability Engineers help to establish observability platforms, ensuring that there is monitoring of the critical user journeys, resources, and related infrastructure; support the implementation of alerting and a practical & sustainable on-call process for incidents; and contribute to blameless post-mortems and help foster a culture of continual feedback, learning, and improvement.
In addition, they lead best-practice release strategies that allow for the safe rollout of features, such as canarying or blue-green; create and promote objective, data-driven guardrails that enable the fast flow of business value until committed parameters of user expectations are breached (namely via SLOs and error budgets); ensure that the architecture has taken into account…
