DevOps vs. SRE — Which is better for your career?

Focus your career to stay relevant with these tips

If you haven’t heard of this little thing called DevOps by now, then you probably don’t work in the tech field. If you have heard of it and you work for a company with more than 10 employees, then you’re probably struggling to actually implement it. Just a reminder, let’s define DevOps:

DevOps is a culture that encourages collaborations among all stakeholders including development and operations teams and the improvement of processes through automation to increase the quality and speed of software delivery.

Similar to that of DevOps, there is a new trend in the automation world and that is the creation of a Site Reliability Engineering role within a DevOps team.

SRE removes the conjecture and debate over what can be launched and when. It introduces a mathematical formula for green- or red-lighting launches, and dedicates a team of people with Ops skills (appropriately called Service Reliability Engineers, or SRE’s) to continuously oversee the reliability of the product.

Both sound pretty similar, right? Let’s breakdown the specifics of each and which should you focus your career towards to set yourself up for the most success?