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How to become a remote DevOps or SRE
The skill set and path into remote platform and reliability engineering.
Remote DevOps and SRE postings cluster around a clear technical stack and a smaller number of philosophical concerns (incident response culture, on-call rotation health, automation discipline).
## Technical stack
Kubernetes and one major cloud (AWS most common, GCP and Azure both meaningful). Terraform for infrastructure-as-code. CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions most listed). Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
## Programming
Go is the most-listed language on remote SRE postings, followed by Python.
## Path
The most common path is from backend engineering through platform team membership. Pure operations backgrounds increasingly require a substantial software engineering component to compete for remote senior listings.
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