SRE Onboarding Checklist: What Helped New Engineers
SRE Onboarding Checklist: What Helped New Engineers

SRE Onboarding Checklist: What Helped New Engineers

Author
Shiv Bade
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sre
onboarding
checklist
Published
March 4, 2019
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We grew the SRE team and onboarded 3 new members in Q1. Here’s the checklist we followed:
  • Access to logging/monitoring tools (Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus)
  • Intro to on-call playbooks and runbooks
  • Sample incident postmortems
  • Walkthrough of CI/CD pipelines
  • Shadowing live deploys
Bonus: we created an SRE lab repo where they could break/recover toy services without fear.
Reduced onboarding time from 3 weeks to 5 days.