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Discussion on: “DevOps engineer” is really just a title used to hire sysadmins?

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Dave MG • Edited

This has been my frustrating experience, yes. Even more frustrating was learning once in those environments how so many people in them worked and operated like the future of the company depended on how much they could simultaneously hire Site Reliability Engineers and cargo cult everything from deployments to credentials/env stores and actually get anything done.

Now I wouldn't say I've become jaded or cynical, but only a jaded and cynical person would say what I'm about to: Unless you are getting hired to be operator 1/patient zero for a organization starting right out of the gates and can implement the three ways of DevOps from the start, you're in for a rough or hilarious time. Or both.