devops-sre

Pre and post deployment checklist with automated verification and rollback preparation

Start structured incident response with automatic triage, communication, and resolution tracking

Generate comprehensive on-call handoff reports with active issues, context, and watch items

Generate blameless postmortem documents with timeline, root cause analysis, and action items

Execute runbook procedures step-by-step with safety checks and verification

Generate SLO/SLA status reports with error budget analysis and recommendations

Implement safe deployment strategies including rolling, blue-green, canary, and feature flags. Use this skill when planning deployments, reducing deployment risk, or implementing progressive delivery. Activate when: deployment strategy, rolling update, blue-green, canary deployment, feature flags, progressive delivery, zero downtime deployment, rollback, deployment risk.

Diagnose and fix common Kubernetes issues with systematic debugging approaches. Use this skill when troubleshooting K8s clusters, pods not starting, deployments failing, or networking issues. Activate when: kubernetes, k8s, pod, deployment, kubectl, container, crashloopbackoff, imagepullbackoff, pending pods, kubernetes networking, service not working, ingress issues.

Guide incident response as an Incident Commander with structured communication and coordination. Use this skill when there's an active incident, outage, service degradation, or production issue. Activate when: incident, outage, service down, production issue, SEV1, SEV2, pages, alerts firing, something broke, users complaining, error spike, latency spike.

Systematic root cause analysis using 5 Whys, fishbone diagrams, and fault tree analysis. Use this skill when investigating why an incident happened, performing RCA, or writing postmortems. Activate when: root cause, why did this happen, 5 whys, incident analysis, postmortem investigation, how did this happen, what caused, failure analysis.

Design effective alerting strategies that catch real issues without causing alert fatigue. Use this skill when setting up alerts, reducing noise, or improving on-call experience. Activate when: alerting, alerts, pagerduty, on-call, alert fatigue, too many alerts, missed alerts, monitoring thresholds, alert tuning.

Implement comprehensive observability with metrics, logs, and distributed traces. Use this skill when setting up monitoring, debugging production issues, or implementing observability. Activate when: metrics, logs, traces, observability, monitoring, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, logging, APM, what's happening in production.

Manage on-call rotations with sustainable practices, fair scheduling, and effective handoffs. Use this skill when setting up on-call, improving on-call experience, or managing rotations. Activate when: on-call, pagerduty, rotation, schedule, handoff, on-call burden, being paged, night pages, weekend on-call, on-call fatigue.

Implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets. Use this skill when defining reliability targets, measuring service health, or balancing reliability vs velocity. Activate when: SLO, SLI, SLA, error budget, reliability targets, service level, uptime target, availability target, latency target, nine nines, 99.9%.

Access AWS CloudWatch logs, metrics, and alarms

Interact with Kubernetes clusters - pods, deployments, services

Access repositories, PRs, issues, and deployments

Post incident updates and communicate with team

Query Prometheus metrics and alerts

Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform

Query metrics, logs, traces, monitors, and incidents from Datadog

Manage incidents, on-call schedules, and escalations in PagerDuty