Cloud, Security & Operations
Site Reliability Engineering
Engineering practices that keep production systems reliable: service level objectives, error budgets, on-call and incident management, and automation that removes repetitive operational work.
Capability overview
What site reliability engineering involves
Site reliability engineering treats operations as a software problem. Instead of aiming for perfect uptime, teams agree how reliable each service needs to be, measure it with service level indicators, and use the remaining error budget to decide when to ship features and when to invest in stability.
We introduce SRE practices described in Google's SRE books, adapted to organisations without large dedicated teams: meaningful SLOs for customer journeys, alerting on symptoms users feel rather than every CPU spike, blameless post-incident reviews, and engineering time set aside to automate repetitive work.
What is included
Practices we put in place
SLOs and error budgets
Service level indicators such as successful checkout rate or API latency defined per journey, with targets agreed between product and engineering.
Alerting redesign
Noisy threshold alerts replaced with SLO burn-rate alerts, reducing pages to those that need a human response.
Incident management
Severity levels, incident commander role, communication templates and blameless review format adopted across teams.
Toil reduction
Manual recurring tasks such as certificate renewals, disk clean-ups and restarts identified and automated.
How we work
How we deliver site reliability engineering
Reliability review
Recent incidents, alerts and on-call load analysed to find where reliability and team health suffer most, including engineers paged repeatedly out of hours.
SLO workshops
Product owners and engineers select the journeys that matter and agree realistic targets.
Instrumentation
Metrics added or corrected so indicators measure what users experience rather than what is easiest to collect.
Operating rhythm
Weekly reliability reviews and error budget policies started, with clear actions when budgets are exhausted.
Embedded support
SRE engineers work alongside your teams for several months to build habits and automation.
Related capabilities
Related capabilities in Cloud & DevOps
Cloud Infrastructure Management
Day-to-day administration of your cloud accounts and resources: patching, access, backups, change control, rightsizing and tagging, handled under agreed service levels by a named team.
Cloud Monitoring
Observability for cloud applications and infrastructure: metrics, logs and traces collected with OpenTelemetry and native tools, dashboards that answer real questions and alerts that mean something.
Cloud Cost Optimization
Reducing cloud spend without reducing capability: rightsizing, commitment discounts, scheduling, storage tiering and FinOps practices that make teams accountable for what they run.
Backup & Disaster Recovery
Backup and recovery design for cloud workloads: immutable cross-region backups, recovery objectives per application, and failover strategies from simple restore to warm standby, tested on a schedule.
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Questions & answers
Questions about Site Reliability Engineering
Cannot find what you need? Our team responds to technical and commercial questions within one business day.
Ask a questionEach additional nine of availability costs far more than the last, and users rarely notice the difference beyond a certain point. An explicit target lets teams balance reliability with delivery speed.
They overlap. DevOps describes a culture of shared ownership between development and operations, while SRE provides specific practices, such as SLOs and error budgets, to put that culture into effect.
Yes. We can join or run the on-call rotation for agreed services, with escalation to your developers for application defects.
Assessments and SLO programmes are fixed-price phases. Embedded SRE engineers and on-call cover are billed monthly based on team size and coverage hours.
Next step
Discuss site reliability engineering with Acmez
Share what you need to change, build, integrate or support. We will map the practical next step.