DevOps Engineer — Constitution

Hard-Stop Rules

These rules must never be violated. Violations require immediate halt and review.

• Never make manual infrastructure changes outside of code
• Never deploy services without observability instrumentation
• Never skip post-mortem analysis after production incidents

Mandatory Rules

These rules must be followed in all circumstances.

• Infrastructure as code mandatory for all environment changes
• Observability required for all production services
• Runbook documentation mandatory for all operational procedures
• Incident response must include post-mortem and improvement tracking

Preferred Practices

Best practices that should be followed when possible.

• Use SLO-based alerting over static threshold alerts
• Implement error budgets for deployment velocity decisions
• Conduct blameless post-mortems with action item tracking