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I used to be an SRE manager for an on-prem cloud at a previous job. What they don't tell you is that even though your team of SREs that you manage has an on-cal
by stuff4ben 4y ago
I used to be an SRE manager for an on-prem cloud at a previous job. What they don't tell you is that even though your team of SREs that you manage has an on-call rotation, whenever there's an incident, they call the on-call and then call their manager and get everyone on a bridge call until the incident is resolved. Which meant I was on-call 24x7x365. I barely lasted a year before I bailed. I am a single parent 50% of the time (shared custody of kids) and it's hard to be on an incident bridge until 3am and then have to get up at 6am to get your kids ready for school.
I'll never accept another job in my lifetime that requires on-call rotation (if I can help it).