Course Overview
About Course
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) shapes how modern organizations ensure software systems are reliable, scalable, and efficient. Over 40 immersive hours, this training equips engineers with practices born at Google and refined across industries—bringing together software engineering, DevOps, and SRE disciplines to manage production at scale.
The program begins by grounding learners in SRE principles and practices, distinguishing SRE from DevOps while emphasizing reliability as an engineering discipline. It dives deeply into SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, teaching participants to quantitatively define acceptable performance boundaries and operational tolerance. To maintain productivity, the course explores toil reduction, teaching participants how to identify repetitive, manual tasks and replace them with robust automation.
Crucially, learners gain hands-on experience with observability—building metrics systems, setting up alert thresholds, and exploring modern monitoring and tracing tools. They explore SRE toolchains including Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and chaos-testing libraries. Incident response exercises empower participants to run blameless postmortems, practice on-call workflows, and understand organizational readiness.
Later modules focus on anti-fragility—how systems can get stronger through planned failures—and the organizational impact of scaling SRE teams responsibly. Learners uncover SRE anti-patterns and advanced strategies like platform engineering and AIOps streaming reliability insights.
A practical capstone enables participants to implement a full SRE lifecycle: define SLOs, automate deployment pipelines, monitor health, and simulate incidents. Accompanied by preparatory review for SRE certification (Foundation & Practitioner), the course blends expert-led instruction, peer collaboration, and real-world scenarios.
By the end, participants can architect reliable infrastructure, deploy resilient systems, embed incident management practices, and champion SRE culture—making them valuable contributors ready for advanced SRE or DevOps roles.
Course Syllabus
Module 1: SRE Principles & Practices (4 hrs)
- Learn SRE fundamentals, compare SRE vs DevOps, understand reliability mindset
- Workshop: define reliability, scalability, and error-budget concepts.
Module 2: SLIs, SLOs & Error Budgets (5 hrs)
- Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Objectives (SLOs), and set up error budget policies
- Hands-on: implement SLI/SLO monitoring and error-budget tracking.
Module 3: Toil Reduction & Automation (4 hrs)
- Understand toil vs engineered work, automation pyramid, secure automation
- Lab: automate repetitive tasks using scripts & orchestration.
Module 4: Monitoring, Observability & Indicators (5 hrs)
- Build SLIs, set up monitoring systems, and explore observability best practices
- Labs: deploy Prometheus/Grafana, configure alerts and dashboards.
Module 5: SRE Tools & Automation Ecosystem (5 hrs)
- Cover SRE tooling, CI/CD integration, chaos engineering introduction
- Labs: integrate Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, automate deployments and run chaos tests.
Module 6: Incident Response & Blameless Postmortems (6 hrs)
- Design incident management workflows, on-call practices, blameless retrospectives
- Simulations: mock incident triage sessions.
Module 7: Anti‑Fragility & Learning from Failure (4 hrs)
- Adopt failure testing, resilience patterns, organizational culture shifts .
- Case studies: anti-fragility approaches in real systems.
Module 8: Organizational Impact & Scaling SRE (4 hrs)
- SRE adoption patterns, roles, team structures, scaling challenges
- Workshop: plan SRE introduction in varied org contexts.
Module 9: Advanced Topics & Practitioner Skills (4 hrs)
- Anti-patterns, platform engineering, AIOps, chaos engineering frameworks
- Labs: misuse patterns, platform design for reliability.
Module 10: Capstone & Certification Prep (4 hrs)
- Implement end-to-end SRE lifecycle: define SLOs, automate infra, monitor, handle incidents.
- Exam-style review for Foundation / Practitioner certification.
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Key Features
- Hands-on labs & simulations: alerting, incidents, chaos testing
- Expert-led instruction with real-world case studies
- Certification preparation aligned to DevOps Institute SRE Foundation and Practitioner tracks
- Peer collaboration in postmortem and design workshops
- Resource toolkit: templates, dashboards, runbooks, and cheat sheets
- 12-month access to recordings, lab environments, and community forums
- Career support: resume reviews, mock interviews, and SRE role mapping
Our Upcoming Batches
At Topskill.ai, we understand that today’s professionals navigate demanding schedules.
To support your continuous learning, we offer fully flexible session timings across all our trainings.
Below is the schedule for our Training. If these time slots don’t align with your availability, simply let us know—we’ll be happy to design a customized timetable that works for you.
Training Timetable
| Batches Online/Offline | Batch Start Date | Session Days | Time Slot (IST) | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week Days (Virtual Online) | Aug 28, 2025 Sept 4th, 2025 Sept 11th, 2025 | Mon-Fri | 7:00 AM (Class 1-1.30 Hrs) | View Fees |
| Week Days (Virtual Online) | Aug 28, 2025 Sept 4th, 2025 Sept 11th, 2025 | Mon-Fri | 11:00 AM (Class 1-1.30 Hrs) | View Fees |
| Week Days (Virtual Online) | Aug 28, 2025 Sept 4th, 2025 Sept 11th, 2025 | Mon-Fri | 5:00 PM (Class 1-1.30 Hrs) | View Fees |
| Week Days (Virtual Online) | Aug 28, 2025 Sept 4th, 2025 Sept 11th, 2025 | Mon-Fri | 7:00 PM (Class 1-1.30 Hrs) | View Fees |
| Weekends (Virtual Online) | Aug 28, 2025 Sept 4th, 2025 Sept 11th, 2025 | Sat-Sun | 7:00 AM (Class 3 Hrs) | View Fees |
| Weekends (Virtual Online) | Aug 28, 2025 Sept 4th, 2025 Sept 11th, 2025 | Sat-Sun | 10:00 AM (Class 3 Hrs) | View Fees |
| Weekends (Virtual Online) | Aug 28, 2025 Sept 4th, 2025 Sept 11th, 2025 | Sat-Sun | 11:00 AM (Class 3 Hrs) | View Fees |
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