Toil Audit + Automation Sprint for a Platform Team
Overview
What this challenge is about.
You log toil using SRE taxonomy, automate the top 5 tasks, and deliver a proposal. Earn your verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The platform team (supports 6 product squads) cannot accept more product-squad demand without either headcount or automation — the audit makes the trade explicit.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Audit and reduce the platform team's toil burden by automating the top 5 items and prove the reduction with re-measured data.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Apply the Google SRE toil taxonomy to real operational work
- Score toil by frequency × duration × automation feasibility honestly
- Build small automations that pay back within the sprint
- Design a recurring toil-audit cadence that doesn't decay
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Toil Reduction
Apply toil reduction to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Automation
Apply automation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Reliability Engineering
Apply reliability engineering to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Team Process
Apply team process to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Python Programming
Apply python programming to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Measurement Design
Apply measurement design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles: