You only have limited resources (time, money, etc...), so you must have a clear objective before starting to learn about SRE stuff.
Considering current job market for SRE position, it's pretty obvious that most of the companies out there are using these 2 things to build their infrastructure: AWS and Kubernetes (K8s). So in short, our objectives should stick to these things, meaning getting skills to be able to compete with other engineers in terms of AWS and K8s.
With that assumption, there are 2 major objectives we need to achieve: Get some AWS Certificates and K8s Certificates. Here are reasons:
- Without prior experiences, certificate(s) is the most solid evidence about your knowledge on specific domain
- If you decide to invest your time and money to something that gonna help you find a good job, you better have some results from that investment. I know AWS simply not enough to convince anyonem, but a certificate does.