SRE Maturity Rubrics

Detailed Scoring Criteria for 15 Domains

Assessment Toolkit | Technical Operations Excellence

15
Domain Rubrics
5
Maturity Levels
75
Questions Total
450
Max Points

Foundations & Observability

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1SLOs & Error BudgetsSRE
2ObservabilityObs
3Alerting StrategyObs

Operations

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4Incident ResponseOps
5On-Call HealthOps
12Disaster RecoveryOps

Resilience

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6Reliability PatternsSRE
7Capacity & PerformanceSRE
11Chaos EngineeringSRE

Release & Automation

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8Release EngineeringSRE
9Toil & AutomationSRE
15Dependency ManagementSRE

Governance

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13Security ReliabilitySec
14DocumentationAll

Culture

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10Culture & OrganizationAll

How to Use These Rubrics

  • Review criteria for each maturity level
  • Score your team honestly (0-30 per domain)
  • Identify gaps using anti-patterns section
  • Use evidence checklist to validate scores
  • Refer to playbooks for improvement actions

Detailed Scoring Guidance

5 questions per domain, max 6 points each