Red Hat Colloquium: “Why consider a career as an SRE?”, Mike Saparov (Red Hat)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
refreshments & networking at 11:30 AM
Hariri Institute for Computing
111 Cummington Mall, Room 180

Mike Saparov
Red Hat Service Reliability Team

Why consider a career as an SRE?

Abstract: What do SREs actually do? And why do they get paid so much? :)

Service Reliability Engineering (SRE) team was originally created at Google to manage their massive infrastructure. According Google’s SRE page, SRE is what you get when you treat operations as if it’s a software problem. So why suddenly is every organization – from Red Hat to AWS to Bank of America and TicketMaster – interested in SREs and SRE culture? Hint: it may be related to a technological shift brought by containers and kubernetes.

Bio: Mike Saparov is a Senior Director of SRE @ Red Hat. He joined Red Hat as part of CoreOS, where as a VP of Engineering he oversaw development of CoreOS Linux, etcd, and Tectonic, the first immutable Kubernetes distro.

Prior to that Mike was an engineering executive at a number of Silicon Valley companies, founded his own startup, wrote compilers, and did research on High Performance Computing at Stanford.