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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) training

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) training helps you apply engineering principles to improve the reliability and performance of critical services.

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Build better services with SRE

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) brings development and operations closer together, giving teams practical ways to manage complex services at scale. ILX courses take you from SRE fundamentals to more advanced application, covering areas such as service level objectives, observability, automation and incident response. Choose Foundation or Practitioner depending on your experience and develop knowledge relevant to roles across DevOps, software engineering, IT operations and technology leadership.

Why choose Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)?

As organisations depend on increasingly complex services, teams need practical ways to balance rapid change with dependable performance. SRE gives you a structured approach to that challenge, helping you understand how measurement, automation and shared working practices can reduce unnecessary operational effort. Studying SRE can give you techniques for setting meaningful service targets, identifying problems earlier and learning from incidents so teams can make informed improvements.

What’s in it for me
  • Understand core Site Reliability Engineering principles and practices
  • Define and manage service level objectives 
  • Use observability to assess and improve service health
  • Reduce operational toil through automation 
  • Learn from failure to strengthen resilience
  • Develop sustainable approaches to incident response
  • Use modern tools to support scalable service reliability 
  • Build shared responsibility for service reliability
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) courses
Site Reliability Engineering
Course
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation

FAQs

Site Reliability Engineering covers topics including service measurement, observability, automation, incident response and reducing operational toil. Find answers to common questions about SRE and the ILX courses available.

What is Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)?

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a way of applying software engineering techniques to the operation of services and systems. It uses practices including measurement, automation and observability to help teams manage reliability at scale and reduce unnecessary operational work.

Why should I study Site Reliability Engineering?

Studying SRE can give you practical knowledge of how teams measure service health, manage operational workload and respond when things go wrong. These skills are relevant to professionals working in areas including DevOps, IT operations, software engineering and technology management.

Should I take SRE Foundation before SRE Practitioner?

You should have achieved the SRE Foundation certification before taking the SRE Practitioner exam. Foundation will provide a useful grounding in the core concepts explored in these courses before you move into the more advanced Practitioner material.

What are SLOs and SLIs in Site Reliability Engineering?

Service Level Objectives define the level of service performance an organisation aims to achieve, while Service Level Indicators provide the measurements used to assess that performance. They help teams make reliability more visible and measurable.

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Do you prefer to learn at your own pace? Our interactive and engaging eLearning is the perfect self-study option, allowing you to move through resources and activities at a time that suits you. 

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Our in-person classroom courses provide an interactive and collaborative learning environment, where you will benefit from the knowledge and passion our trainers bring to the subject. 

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Our virtual courses provide the personal teaching experience of a classroom with the ease and flexibility of a virtual environment. All the benefits, without the travel! 

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Blended

Our blended courses combine eLearning with face-to-face training. Study the Foundation certification at your own pace and then use the Practitioner workshop to put the theory into practice. 

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"The trainer was extremely well informed, personable and helped put everyone at ease. The course itself was very intensive, with a lot of information in a short amount of time."

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