A Non-Traditional Path into the SRE Folds with Serena Tiede

Published: Aug. 10, 2021, 10 a.m.

b'This week Serena Tiede, an SRE at Optum, joins Corey to talk about the world of SREs. Serena discusses their mix of traditional and non-traditional background and making the jump from electrical engineering to tech. Serena tells us about their beginnings at Optum and the different, and welcome, challenges of moving from system to system as an SRE.\\n\\nThey talk about what Serena carrys forward from their background, starting in security and moving over to becoming an SRE and learning Docker. Corey and Serena also discuss the interminable nature of the cloud and the vast differences between when we\\u2019re footing the AWS bill\\u2014and when its the company\\u2019s problem! It turns out Serena learned some tricks on keeping costs down by tuning in to the various \\u201cLast Week in AWS\\u201d podcasts. You can do the same!'