These benefits are creating a high demand for SREs, who are also considered computer network architects due to their designing and implementing computer and cloud systems. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the projected job growth for site reliability engineers will reach 9% from 2014 to 2024.

Is SRE a good role?

SRE takes the tasks that have historically been done by operations teams, often manually, and instead gives them to engineers or ops teams who use software and automation to solve problems and manage production systems. SRE is a valuable practice when creating scalable and highly reliable software systems.

What is the future of SRE?

Site reliability engineers will automate whatever they can, and as software continues to move forwards, the potential for automation will continue to expand. DevOps and site reliability engineers should always be on the lookout for new open-source software and other ideas that can be applied to manual tasks.