# Site Reliability Engineers

*/JobTypes/Site_Reliability_Engineers*

## Digital Scalar

**Band**: digital
**Digital**: 0.85
**Rationale**: With no parent or child occupations provided in the grounding block, I relied solely on the Job Type name 'Site Reliability Engineers'. Managing, scaling, and maintaining software infrastructure is entirely remotely-doable knowledge work. Following instructions for an unpopulated composite, I selected the 'digital' band and its center value of 0.85.

## Icp Opportunities

- [AI Incident Triage](/JobTypes/Site_Reliability_Engineers/Opportunities/AI_Incident_Triage) — Agent
- [Automated Cloud FinOps](/JobTypes/Site_Reliability_Engineers/Opportunities/Automated_Cloud_FinOps) — Headless SaaS
- [Managed Log Forensics](/JobTypes/Site_Reliability_Engineers/Opportunities/Managed_Log_Forensics) — Service-as-Software
- [Automated Pipeline Remediation](/JobTypes/Site_Reliability_Engineers/Opportunities/Automated_Pipeline_Remediation) — Agent
- [On-Call Routing Engine](/JobTypes/Site_Reliability_Engineers/Opportunities/On-Call_Routing_Engine) — Headless SaaS
- [Managed Outage Communications](/JobTypes/Site_Reliability_Engineers/Opportunities/Managed_Outage_Communications) — Service-as-Software

## Job Type Profile

**Produces**: Produces infrastructure-as-code configurations, deployment automation scripts, and incident postmortem reports. Generates system capacity plans and tuning recommendations to maintain target reliability thresholds.
**Ai Surface**: Log aggregation, metric parsing, and initial anomaly detection rely on continuous digital telemetry streams. Complex system debugging, architectural trade-off decisions, and cross-team incident communication remain human activities.
**Core Tools**:
- [Terraform](/JobTypes/Site_Reliability_Engineers/Products/Terraform)
- [Datadog](/JobTypes/Site_Reliability_Engineers/Products/Datadog)
- [PagerDuty](/JobTypes/Site_Reliability_Engineers/Products/PagerDuty)
- [Kubernetes](/JobTypes/Site_Reliability_Engineers/Products/Kubernetes)
**Responsibilities**:
- Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code for production environments.
- Define and track Service Level Objectives and Service Level Indicators.
- Lead incident response and resolve high-severity production outages.
- Write blameless postmortems to document incident root causes and prevention strategies.
- Automate repetitive deployment, capacity scaling, and operational tasks.

## Neighborhood

### Related (delivered by)

- [Learning Platform Hosting and Uptime Management](/Processes/Learning_Platform_Hosting_and_Uptime_Management) — delivered by · Processes
- [Reduce Monitoring Lag](/Processes/Reduce_Monitoring_Lag) — delivered by · Processes
- [Listening Platform Hosting](/Processes/Listening_Platform_Hosting) — delivered by · Processes
- [Uptime Incident Response](/Processes/Uptime_Incident_Response) — delivered by · Processes
- [Digital Storefront Hosting](/Processes/Digital_Storefront_Hosting) — delivered by · Processes
- [Data Collection Hosting](/Processes/Data_Collection_Hosting) — delivered by · Processes
- [Application Reliability Engineering](/Processes/Application_Reliability_Engineering) — delivered by · Processes
- [Configure Caching Layer](/Processes/Configure_Caching_Layer) — delivered by · Processes
- [Software Hosting and Infrastructure Management](/Processes/Software_Hosting_and_Infrastructure_Management) — delivered by · Processes
- [Maintain Observability and Alerting](/Processes/Maintain_Observability_and_Alerting) — delivered by · Processes
- [Administration Platform Hosting](/Processes/Administration_Platform_Hosting) — delivered by · Processes
- [Messaging Throughput Scaling](/Processes/Messaging_Throughput_Scaling) — delivered by · Processes
- [Application Capacity Management](/Processes/Application_Capacity_Management) — delivered by · Processes
- [Extract Capacity Monitoring](/Processes/Extract_Capacity_Monitoring) — delivered by · Processes
- [Production Incident Response](/Processes/Production_Incident_Response) — delivered by · Processes
- [On Call Incident Response](/Processes/On_Call_Incident_Response) — delivered by · Processes
- [Digital Infrastructure Operations](/Processes/Digital_Infrastructure_Operations) — delivered by · Processes
- [Reduce Service Timeouts](/Processes/Reduce_Service_Timeouts) — delivered by · Processes
- [Purging and Versioning Cached Assets](/Processes/Purging_and_Versioning_Cached_Assets) — delivered by · Processes
- [Operating Server Infrastructure](/Processes/Operating_Server_Infrastructure) — delivered by · Processes

### Related (performed by)

- [Web Hosting Server](/Products/Web_Hosting_Server) — performed by · Products
- [Bare Metal Server](/Products/Bare_Metal_Server) — performed by · Products

### Perform

- [Draft Incident Post Mortems](/Tasks/Draft_Incident_Post_Mortems) — perform · Tasks
- [Automate Toil With Runbooks](/Tasks/Automate_Toil_With_Runbooks) — perform · Tasks
- [Capacity Planning For Services](/Tasks/Capacity_Planning_For_Services) — perform · Tasks
- [Define And Track SLOs](/Tasks/Define_And_Track_SLOs) — perform · Tasks
- [Respond To Production Incidents On Call](/Tasks/Respond_To_Production_Incidents_On_Call) — perform · Tasks

### Engage in

- [Production Readiness Reviews](/Activities/Production_Readiness_Reviews) — engage in · Activities
- [Chaos Engineering Gamedays](/Activities/Chaos_Engineering_Gamedays) — engage in · Activities

### Uses software

- [Terraform](/Software/Terraform) — uses software · Software
- [Grafana](/Software/Grafana) — uses software · Software
- [PagerDuty](/Software/PagerDuty) — uses software · Software
- [Prometheus](/Software/Prometheus) — uses software · Software

### Required knowledge

- [Error Budget Policy](/Knowledge/Error_Budget_Policy) — requires knowledge · Knowledge
- [Kubernetes Internals](/Knowledge/Kubernetes_Internals) — requires knowledge · Knowledge

### Required skills

- [Distributed Systems Debugging](/Skills/Distributed_Systems_Debugging) — requires skill · Skills
- [Infrastructure As Code](/Skills/Infrastructure_As_Code) — requires skill · Skills

### What it uses

- [Terraform](/Products/Terraform) — uses · Products
- [Datadog](/Software/Datadog) — uses · Software
- [Kubernetes](/Products/Kubernetes) — uses · Products

### Latent gaps

- [On-Call Routing Engine](/Opportunities/On-Call_Routing_Engine) — latent gap · Opportunities
- [AI Incident Triage](/Opportunities/AI_Incident_Triage) — latent gap · Opportunities
- [Automated Cloud FinOps](/Opportunities/Automated_Cloud_FinOps) — latent gap · Opportunities
- [Automated Pipeline Remediation](/Opportunities/Automated_Pipeline_Remediation) — latent gap · Opportunities
- [Managed Log Forensics](/Opportunities/Managed_Log_Forensics) — latent gap · Opportunities
- [Managed Outage Communications](/Opportunities/Managed_Outage_Communications) — latent gap · Opportunities

### Problems this exposes

- [Infrastructure Audit Log Parsing](/Problems/Infrastructure_Audit_Log_Parsing) — exposes problem · Problems
- [Runaway Cloud Compute Costs](/Problems/Runaway_Cloud_Compute_Costs) — exposes problem · Problems
- [SRE Burnout And Turnover](/Problems/SRE_Burnout_And_Turnover) — exposes problem · Problems
- [Service Outage Customer Churn](/Problems/Service_Outage_Customer_Churn) — exposes problem · Problems
- [Triaging False Positive Alerts](/Problems/Triaging_False_Positive_Alerts) — exposes problem · Problems
- [Production Release Velocity Bottlenecks](/Problems/Production_Release_Velocity_Bottlenecks) — exposes problem · Problems