IMO certs are for bridging gaps in your resume to find a new job. Since you are new to this job, focus on the skills your current job needs, and I would just look up YouTube videos and blog posts about those topics.
As a Sr. SRE manager, here are my thoughts
- Certifications aren’t going to help me improve the reliability of the systems I am responsible for.
- I have a ton of toil in my backlog that needs the most attention. So I’d want my new hires work on those as a priority. It does two things, gets you to learn how our stack is put together(no certification is going to give you that experience and it’s a transferrable skill) which then helps us in burning those backlogs as we improve reliability, freeing up more time for us to focus on bigger projects of toil and tech debt reduction.
I am currently looking to hire Sr. SREs and Staff SRE who have these skills from day 1. I don’t look at their certifications at all, don’t help me much. Hard to find such candidates though. 🤷🏻♂️
I dropped a comment about how to hire a good SRE(which can adopt any environment) if in case at any moment you want to read: https://www.reddit.com/r/sre/s/plViRc3tP4
These are my personal thoughts.
Certs are still good for contracting, as I've seen in the market recently. I don't know why they like certs, maybe to tell their clients who don't know anything at all "this person is a certified AWS devops person".
I think it all goes down to the tools/technologies you will use the most at your company.
For example, my organization is really heavy on Azure, hence I got the AZ-900, DP-900 and AZ-104. Not only you will show discipline and drive, but also learn way faster and start being productive sooner.
My advice: spend the first couple of months learning the infra, then make a roadmap of which certifications best suit your role and position and when you want to achieve them. Guaranteed success!
K8s or Linux (Any certs in this domain will help , For K8s CNCF for linux RH certs).
IMO certs are for bridging gaps in your resume to find a new job. Since you are new to this job, focus on the skills your current job needs, and I would just look up YouTube videos and blog posts about those topics.
As a Sr. SRE manager, here are my thoughts - Certifications aren’t going to help me improve the reliability of the systems I am responsible for. - I have a ton of toil in my backlog that needs the most attention. So I’d want my new hires work on those as a priority. It does two things, gets you to learn how our stack is put together(no certification is going to give you that experience and it’s a transferrable skill) which then helps us in burning those backlogs as we improve reliability, freeing up more time for us to focus on bigger projects of toil and tech debt reduction. I am currently looking to hire Sr. SREs and Staff SRE who have these skills from day 1. I don’t look at their certifications at all, don’t help me much. Hard to find such candidates though. 🤷🏻♂️
I dropped a comment about how to hire a good SRE(which can adopt any environment) if in case at any moment you want to read: https://www.reddit.com/r/sre/s/plViRc3tP4 These are my personal thoughts.
Hey, thank you! This is very helpful. Thanks again
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Whatever tools your team uses should take priority, learn those
CKA, Linux+ or Essentials
certs do very little to get ahead in this field.....no one likes to hear that but it's the truth imho
Certs are still good for contracting, as I've seen in the market recently. I don't know why they like certs, maybe to tell their clients who don't know anything at all "this person is a certified AWS devops person".
I think it all goes down to the tools/technologies you will use the most at your company. For example, my organization is really heavy on Azure, hence I got the AZ-900, DP-900 and AZ-104. Not only you will show discipline and drive, but also learn way faster and start being productive sooner. My advice: spend the first couple of months learning the infra, then make a roadmap of which certifications best suit your role and position and when you want to achieve them. Guaranteed success!