All the devops I have encountered so far have been “sysadmin in a trench coat.” Most couldn’t write anything beyond basic Python and Shell scripts. It was mostly ops folks jumping into a fancy new title. So every time something would go poof, they had to pull in devs to debug the most basic stuff.
Sure you have a few people that are great at development and operations and understand (and can make complex changes) to both the infra and the codebase.
But those people are making $300k+ at FAANG companies.
Unfortunately they are also the ones who write all the blog posts and podcasts on devops
All the devops I have encountered so far have been “sysadmin in a trench coat.” Most couldn’t write anything beyond basic Python and Shell scripts. It was mostly ops folks jumping into a fancy new title. So every time something would go poof, they had to pull in devs to debug the most basic stuff.
Sure you have a few people that are great at development and operations and understand (and can make complex changes) to both the infra and the codebase.
But those people are making $300k+ at FAANG companies.
Unfortunately they are also the ones who write all the blog posts and podcasts on devops