[brogrammernot]

The same reason that Quality Assurance or Manual testers as been re-branded as “Quality Engineering / Quality Engineers”. Everyone wants to be an engineer and it’s a recruiting tactic.

Do you see many DBAs anymore? I haven’t seen them for awhile, I’ve seen plenty of Database Engineer or Database Developer job postings.

I’d say if they’re going to call you an engineer, asked to be paid like a software engineer.

[aliswe]

But the tools and tech are not the same for sysadmins and devops people.