To someone who isn’t familiar with these roles, it’s easy to think that DevOps and systems reliability engineers (SREs) might have the same job. It’s reasonable to wonder if there’s any daylight between DevOps vs SREs.
For the sake of keeping things simple, I’ll still refer to this Google cloud engineer job as a DevOps engineer.
The roles and responsibilities of a DevOps engineer at Google: As a DevOps engineer at Google, you’ll be expected to: Be customer-facing.
Both jobs basically want you to prove that you’ve got software engineering skills and you know your way around systems.