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Thomas H Jones II • Edited

Title: Last I checked our org-chart, it was some permutation "Senior Cloud Engineer" or some such. But what it is at any given instant in time depends on what customer I'm working for and what I'm doing for them on a given project. The joys of being a consultant.

Why: Cynical, but, "I'm a systems and automation generalist and my company needs to be able to put some kind of label on my skills-set so they can more-easily sell my services to customers?"

Mostly I'm that "break glass in case of fire" guy: throw me at a critical issue — be it a down system, an urgent project or something no one else seems have been able to figure out — and I'll usually be able to come up with a fix or solution in very short order.

When referring to myself, I usually just say "janitor" (or, as I have on my Slack profile, "Chaos Custodian").