# What I Learned in One Year as an SRE Trainee

DevFeed: [What I Learned in One Year as an SRE Trainee](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-i-learned-in-one-year-as-an-sre-trainee-2156.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//sre-trainee>)

Published: 2023-01-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [SRE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sre.md>), [Production Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/production-engineering.md>), [Infrastructure as code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Incident response](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-response.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datacenter.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [data-center](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [google-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-cloud.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [infrastructure-as-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [knowledge-sharing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/knowledge-sharing.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [music](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/music.md>), [production-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production-engineering.md>), [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/site-reliability-engineering.md>), [sre](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sre.md>)

## AI overview

A Site Reliability Engineering trainee at SoundCloud reflects on a first year spent learning how SRE applies software engineering to operations, reliability, and scalability. The article discusses the broad scope of the role, including Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring, Incident Response training, Kubernetes upgrades, infrastructure decommissioning, and a service migration from a data center to Google Cloud.

## Source excerpt

I recently celebrated my one year anniversary as a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) trainee at SoundCloud. Looking back, I had very little...