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0 pointsdijit3y ago0 comments

You're conflating an IT Technician and a Sysadmin.

Sysadmins automate their work. Operations Engineer is just another title for sysadmin.

Systems Engineer is also another title for the same thing.

Platform Engineering (depending on where you are) is yet another variation.

If you're responsible for the operating system, monitoring, clustering, hardware etc; then you're firmly in "sysadmin" land.

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This whole string of conversation is some of the most horrendous navel gazing I've had in my comments for a while.

dijitOP3y ago

Welcome to Hackernews.

Pedantry is requisite.

> Sysadmins automate their work.

So do janitors. What's your point?

> Operations Engineer is just another title for sysadmin.

It really isn't. That makes as much sense as claiming that DevOps is just a sysadmin that's also a developer.

Job titles are mostly meaningless when comparing across organizations (and often within organizations, when they are large enough.)

Many "operations engineers" are actually sysadmins. Many "devops" are really sysadmins also doing development.

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