Understands GitOps from SRE perspective: knows how declarative deployments through Git ensure reproducibility and audit trail. Understands how GitOps helps in incident response (quick rollback through git revert).
Roles · Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) · Junior
What a Junior } should know
1 core skills, 61 in total. Expectations per skill, and what changes at the next level.
This page lists what a Junior } is expected to know and do, skill by skill. Core skills are the ones a manager and peers assess in a review cycle; the rest count only in self-assessment. Main areas: DevOps & CI/CD.
Core skills for a Junior
Grouped by area. The label on the right is the expected depth: Awareness, Working, Advanced or Expert.
DevOps & CI/CD · 1
Additional skills
Not assessed by the team, but part of the self-assessment and the development plan.
What changes at Mid-level
61 skills get a higher expectation or become core when moving from Junior to Mid-level. The biggest jumps first.
- GitOps Practices: Awareness → Working
- Algorithms & Complexity: Awareness → Working
- Apache Kafka: Awareness → Working
- API Documentation: Awareness → Working
- APM Tools: Awareness → Working
- ArgoCD: Awareness → Working
- Async Programming: Awareness → Working
- AWS: Awareness → Working
- Capacity Planning: Awareness → Working
- Chaos Engineering: Awareness → Working
} in the open competency matrix: 61 skills across 5 levels. The matrix is free for individuals and stays free.