Technology · Career move
DevOps Engineer → Senior Site Reliability Engineer
What the move actually takes — the path, the skills to add, and the timeline — with the pay it unlocks. Indicative and sourced; a target, not a promise.
The trajectory
$163,000 now → $255,000 in 3 yrs
~3 yrs typical
The path
Route: impact-promotion
Skills to add
What Senior Site Reliability Engineer needs that DevOps Engineer typically doesn't.
- SLOs, observability, incident response
- Operate large-scale distributed systems
Credentials on this route
- Optional cloud cert (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes depth
Explore both roles
Figures are indicative, in USD, and never a guarantee of an outcome.