Kubernetes incident recovery
IntermediateActiveDiagnose and repair a broken control plane config and failing node pool under pressure.
Category: Failover & Networking·Duration: 2 hours·Max Points: 100 XMP·4 submissions
Technical Assessments
SRE challenges & grading.
Configure Kubernetes, infra security, and eBPF labs. Track candidates’ submission pipelines, audit answers, and schedule technical panels.
Active Challenges / Tracks
4
Cumulative Submissions
4
Awaiting Grading Review
2
CI/CD security hardening
SeniorActiveAudit a GitHub Actions pipeline, inject policy-as-code linting, and enforce image signing with Cosign.
Category: Security & Automation·Duration: 3 hours·Max Points: 120 XMP·2 submissions
Observability and SLO design
BeginnerActiveGiven a microservices architecture, define SLIs, set up Prometheus triggers, and create an alerting heat map.
Category: Monitoring & Reliability·Duration: 1.5 hours·Max Points: 80 XMP·9 submissions
Internal developer platform rollout
IntermediateActiveConfigure Backstage templates, map software catalog entities, and automate service registration actions.
Category: Developer Experience·Duration: 4 hours·Max Points: 100 XMP·3 submissions
Linux performance tuning & eBPF
SeniorDraftTrace kernel performance bottlenecks on a high-throughput API gateway with BCC tools and write BPF probes.
Category: Kernel & Systems·Duration: 2.5 hours·Max Points: 150 XMP·0 submissions