# Practical guidance for getting started as a Site Reliability Engineer

DevFeed: [Practical guidance for getting started as a Site Reliability Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/practical-guidance-for-getting-started-as-a-site-reliability-engineer-11963.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/practical-guidance-for-first-time-site-reliability-engineers>)

Author: Ben Wheatley

Published: 2023-09-08T16:48:21Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [SRE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sre.md>), [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineering.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>)

Tags: [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [getting-started](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/getting-started.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [site-reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/site-reliability.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [sre](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sre.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>)

## AI overview

A first-time site reliability engineer at incident.io shares practical advice for creating an infrastructure roadmap with little initial context. The guidance emphasizes understanding the product and codebase, learning from experienced colleagues, and focusing on availability, reliability, deployments, observability, and data stores.

## Source excerpt

Here are a few strategies that might help you build up context, find the problems that really matter and turn these into a plan of action.