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Leading without Managing - Becoming an SRE Technical Leader

Offered By: USENIX via YouTube

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SREcon Courses Career Development Courses Strategic Planning Courses Mentorship Courses Technical Leadership Courses

Course Description

Overview

Explore the path to becoming an SRE technical leader in this 53-minute conference talk from SREcon19 Asia/Pacific. Gain insights from Todd Palino of LinkedIn as he shares his experience reinventing his career in a large SRE organization. Discover what technical leadership entails and how to guide the strategic direction of teams, departments, or companies without taking on people management roles. Learn tactical steps to set yourself up for success, identify opportunities, and develop essential skills such as project work, mentoring, and promoting diversity and inclusion. Understand the importance of stepping outside your comfort zone, keeping a paper trail, and identifying meaningful work. Get valuable advice for engineers, managers, and aspiring technical leaders in the field of Site Reliability Engineering.

Syllabus

Intro
How Did I Get Here?
Title Progression
Engineering Yardsticks
Why Lead?
Project Work
How About Examples?
Mentoring
Looking to the Outside
Diversity, Inclusion, and Ethics
How to identify Meaningful Work
Keep A Paper Trail
Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
For Engineers
For Managers
For Technical Leaders


Taught by

USENIX

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