The Complete Learning Path to Earn Your SRE Certification.pdf

The learning path to earn your SRE certification is carefully staged: begin with fundamentals, deepen into practices, master tools and automation, engage with real-world scenarios, prepare thoroughly for the exam, and then apply and evolve your skills in the field.

1. The Complete
Learning Path to Earn
Your SRE Certification www.novelvista.com

2. Introduction
Build Your Foundations
Develop Intermediate Skills
Master Advanced SRE Practices
Get Certified
Career Outcomes
Conclusion
CONTENT

3. INTRODUCTION Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software
engineering and operations to ensure system
reliability, scalability, and efficiency. This short guide
outlines the key steps to become a certified SRE.

4. BUILD YOUR FOUNDATIONS
Linux & Networking – System administration and troubleshooting
Cloud Platforms – AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud basics
Programming – Python, Go, or Bash for automation
Monitoring Tools – Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack

5. DEVELOP INTERMEDIATE
SKILLS
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03
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Learn CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or GitHub Actions
Understand SLI, SLO, and SLA principles
Manage incident response and on-call
operations
Work with containers and Kubernetes

6. MASTER ADVANCED
SRE PRACTICES
Implement error budgets, capacity planning,
and chaos engineering
Integrate security and compliance into
DevOps workflows
Focus on blameless postmortems and
performance tuning

7. NovelVista SRE
Practitioner & Specialist
Certifications
GET CERTIFIED
SRE Foundation –
DevOps Institute
Certified Site
Reliability Engineer
(CSRE) – DevOps
Institute

8. CAREER
OUTCOMES
Roles: SRE, Cloud Reliability Engineer, DevOps Architect
Benefits: High demand, global opportunities, strong salary growth