An IBM Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is a person who operates services that sustain service level objectives and engineers scalable, secure, and highly reliable services. They do this by infusing automation, DevOps principles, proactive maintenance, and rigorous troubleshooting for critical workloads on IBM Cloud.

During exam development, the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) define all of the tasks, knowledge and experience that an individual would need in order to successfully fulfill their role with the product or solution. These are represented by the objectives below and the questions on the certification exam are based upon these objective.