What are the dominant SRE operating models in the financial services industry?

Throughout my DevOps career, I’ve had the real pleasure of either directly working with various SRE operating models and setups or indirectly being exposed to them through consultation. I have to admit that incumbents and, in general, the financial services industry have been extremely creative in how to approach the SRE operating model. In certain cases, with success, creating strong financial services industry SRE patterns, and in some other cases, not so successfully creating strong financial services industry SRE anti-patterns.

There are, of course, several ways that an SRE operating model can be deployed in the context of a given incumbent. In this section, we will discuss some of the most dominant SRE operating models that I have discovered in the financial services industry, outlining their context and motivating factors, as well as their pros and cons.

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