August 11, 2022

Ana Lebron - SRE is an engineering function with a strategic business focus

22 minutes

Highlights of my conversation with Ana:

The intersection of SRE/business

Complex systems always fail

Reliability is a feature of the system

SLAs are a partnership with the customer

Managing SLAs in proactive and reactive situations

Measure everything

Impact of outages and communicating to business

Collaboration with Security

Involving SRE at the beginning of the implementation is important

Planning for future tools

Celebrating team wins

Learning opportunities from outages

Meet: Ana Lebron is the leader of the Site Reliability Engineering team at Enova International. She has been in the technology industry for the last 15 years in different roles. She started her career as a system engineer in the aerospace industry, working in Germany and Spain. In 2010 Ana undertook an MBA specializing in Technology Operations, and since then, she has worked at Enova International, leading change management, problem management, and site reliability engineering teams. Ana has co-organized Chicago Women in Tech Conference (Chiwitcon) and is passionate about DevOps and Agile practices.

If you have any questions for Ana, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-a-lebron/

I hope you enjoyed the episode. The best place to connect with me is on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand). Please message me if you want me to cover specific topics with future guests.

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