Daria Barteneva, Microsoft Azure
SRE team require a balance of technical and soft skills, creativity and teamwork to be successful. Drawing parallels between the roles, challenges and dynamics of Dungeons and Dragons party and an SRE team will help us to explore SRE journey from the team inception to developing ideal makeup in terms of tenure/seniority, skillset and align it with the context SRE team could be part of.
We will share practical examples that helps SRE teams building resiliency and effective collaboration while dealing with challenges. We will also explore different mechanisms that can channel "super hero" energy to make team stronger and nurture the talent, helping team to keep the balance of distributed knowledge and accountability.
In this talk we will discuss:
- Examples of functional SRE team setups
- Common challenges SRE team may encounter
- Developing early in career SRE
- Dealing with the change and building resilience
- Identifying red flags and avoiding long term problems
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/barteneva
