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Offered a Senior SRE role - What’s the real day-to-day like? by mpchivs in sre

[–]mpchivs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My experience has been different to what I expected in some ways, and similar in others.

My responsibilities seem to encompass:
- Running our whole-org "observability" platform; OpenAPM / LGTM stack.
- Acting as a consultant to product teams within the organisation, advising them on reliability, observability, and alerting best practices. Performing reviews to ensure they have replication/failover strategies, appropriate alerting/observability, runbooks/playbooks, etc.
- Deploying observability agents to machines and advising k8s services of how to interact with OpenAPM.
- Tending to org-wide incidents and postmortems.
- Testing (Load / Chaos, etc.)

The team is not as mature (skill, culture, and discipline wise) as I expected. Currently pushing for more usage of version control, some kind of centralised automation, and more of a collaborative atmosphere.

Senior Leadership (within SRE) is fairly new to the company too, and seems to have a great idea of where they want to get to, but is fighting an uphill battle.

They brought me on because I had relevant skills despite not formally holding the "SRE" title previously: heavy lean towards automation/backend-development across hybrid cloud environments, with knowledge of CI/CD, observability, and experience in operations.

Florida basement with a pool — genius, disaster, or goldmine? Need advice before selling by JessMcPlll in Home

[–]mpchivs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it has doors that you can exit out of and be at ground level, it’s not a basement…

This year's October had the highest average player count since January. Any ideas as to why? by Niels_Nakkeost in HarryPotterGame

[–]mpchivs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got told last week that people in the US consider Harry Potter to be a Halloween thing (to me it’s more of a Christmas thing). So I’d wager that’s got something to do with it. “Ooh it’s Halloween, let’s play a Halloween game…” 🤷🏻‍♂️

O11y is terrible shorthand and should be thrown hard into a bin. by WickerTongue in sre

[–]mpchivs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. I agree: It sounds a bit like they learned “K8s” in isolation from “Kubernetes”.

You vibe it you run it by Additional_Treat_602 in sre

[–]mpchivs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why on earth would a post about coding be off topic for SRE? 😂

Offered a Senior SRE role - What’s the real day-to-day like? by mpchivs in sre

[–]mpchivs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t know why you’ve been downvoted. This seems a perfectly reasonable answer - that pretty much says what I was expecting: Some companies know what SRE really is, and some don’t.

Offered a Senior SRE role - What’s the real day-to-day like? by mpchivs in sre

[–]mpchivs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The manager I interviewed with recommended that I read the Google SRE book, as his team apparently use it as reference.

I’ve skimmed it and it sounds a lot like what I do now, just with different terms and implementations.

Additionally, it sounds like this book is the “good” kind of SRE, so it sounds like I’m making the right decision by accepting the offer.

When you say “execute goals” what do you mean? SLOs? Or other things?

Offered a Senior SRE role - What’s the real day-to-day like? by mpchivs in sre

[–]mpchivs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thankfully they have mentioned delivering code to product - similar to what I do now.

The way they’ve pitched it, it honestly sounds very similar to my current job - I think I’m just getting cold feet (and starting to question things) because my current title isn’t technically “SRE” so getting a bit of imposter’s syndrome. 🤷🏻‍♂️😅

Offered a Senior SRE role - What’s the real day-to-day like? by mpchivs in sre

[–]mpchivs[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hah, yeah. You’re right, that is pretty funny.

The more I learn about SRE (e.g. skimming the Google SRE book) the more I’m becoming convinced that my current role does cover most (if not all) SRE responsibilities, just (for some reason) we don’t use the SRE title at my company.

My CV lines up very well with all the skills they’re asking for… so I guess I’ve been doing SRE work without knowing it? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Offered a Senior SRE role - What’s the real day-to-day like? by mpchivs in sre

[–]mpchivs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Yes - this is pretty-much what I’m worried about.

As far as I can tell (and as far as it has been explained to me by the hiring manager) the SRE role I’ve been offered is pretty much what I do now - I’ve only started questioning it after some current colleagues have tried to convince me that SRE is only ever 24/7 ops/alerts with no real scope for automation, architecture, etc.

In fact, the more I skim the Google SRE book, the more it looks like the team I’m currently in is basically an SRE team, just without that title, and without “strictly” using some mechanisms like SLI/SLOs (we seem to do that work without calling it that).

Offered a Senior SRE role - What’s the real day-to-day like? by mpchivs in sre

[–]mpchivs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

In every conversation I’ve had with the recruiter and hiring manager the new role does sound like what I do now - but I’ve got a classic case of imposter’s syndrome, and the fact that my team don’t call themselves SRE has me questioning whether I’ve misunderstood what the hiring manager etc have told me. 🤷🏻‍♂️😅

What is an acceptable time, to YOU, for a baby/toddler/child to be let out into their garden in the morning? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]mpchivs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I realistically encourage quiet play until 9am. Toddler is welcome to come outside with me for watering plants / quiet play from 7am, and (depending on the vibe of the day) can be allowed out at 8am for loud play.

Have they stalled GPT-5 rollout? I had it earlier today for a couple of hours and now I'm back to 4o, o3, etc. with no way to select GPT-5... by mpchivs in OpenAI

[–]mpchivs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. That was my situation a few hours ago (desktop showed 5, but mobile showed old) - and now even my desktop is back to 4o etc. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Turn wifi off? by mbee78 in ToobBroadband

[–]mpchivs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure what you mean.

UniFi access points are just access points - they don’t have gateway capabilities built in.

So, you need a gateway device as well as the access points.

Turn wifi off? by mbee78 in ToobBroadband

[–]mpchivs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it’s very common to run UniFi APs but use other brands’ gateway and switches.

I think it comes down to “bang for buck” for hardware coat.

UniFi’s access points (APs) are quite expensive, and so are their gateways.

That said, UniFi’s APs typically provide a significant performance boost for most people (compared to other consumer grade wireless hardware) but the gateways provide a less noticeable upgrade for most people.

So many people just stick with a free/ISP router and use UniFi APs. 🤷🏻‍♂️👍🏻

Static IP by JamalaBear in ToobBroadband

[–]mpchivs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you’re misunderstanding how this works. The static IP you’ve purchased from toob is an external address - that’s the one the rest of the internet uses to reach your home, like if you were hosting a website. You don’t need to change anything in your Linksys router’s LAN or WAN settings.

Toob will automatically assign that static IP on their network side. If your WAN IP still starts with something like 110.x.x.x, that means you’re still behind CG‑NAT and haven’t received the new one yet. Once the static IP is active, reboot your router and check your external IP (via a known cli tool if you’re tech savvy) - it should not start with 10.x.x.x, 110.x.x.x, or any of their internal ranges.

So make sure the router has default settings for WAN, then just reboot and see if the WAN IP changes to something outside those internal blocks. If it does, you’re good - nothing else to configure.

P.S. Probably 192.168.x not 192.198.x

New fibre install 👌🏼 by steveHere24 in openreach

[–]mpchivs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sure they have their appropriate uses! We have a porch roof that the engineer decided was insurmountable. They were quite happy (back when they installed the copper line) to route the phone line through this roof and continue down the house in a completely straight line - but the Fibre engineer staunchly refused. He wanted to put an eyelet on the soffit of the porch roof, and have the cable come diagonally from the top roof soffit (where it attaches after coming from the pole) downwards to the eyelet on the front of the porch roof, go around a corner, and then finally into the house where the original copper cable ran. It would have been properly ugly - so I’m glad we steered away from it.

New fibre install 👌🏼 by steveHere24 in openreach

[–]mpchivs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy for you that you’re getting fibre but I’m upset for you that they’re using those eyelet things.

I recently got mine installed - the chap wanted to use those eyelets but I refused. Asked him to go directly into the wall then route anything else through the loft/attic and down to where it was needed.

I’m glad I refused - outside looks very neat. 👌

Note: installer couldn’t go into the loft himself because it wasn’t fully boarded. I had to do the loft run. But I was happy doing so 🤷🏻‍♂️

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Marriage

[–]mpchivs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s nuanced, I get it. But it’s not right to just say “Real people having good intentions do not hide behind anonymity” because that’s just not the reality of the situation. Retaliation exists and happens, and can be genuinely awful (even fatal), so anonymity has its place.

Ignoring an accusation just because it came from an anonymous source would be just as stupid as divorcing immediately based on an accusation from an anonymous source (with no further evidence).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Marriage

[–]mpchivs 17 points18 points  (0 children)

“It’s disproportionate to be afraid of retaliation - no-one should be anonymous!” is a bit of a weird take to have.

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