[user5994461]

And in spite of all that, "DevOps" is still a massive improvement over the situation from a decade ago.

Back then, you'd apply for a "sysadmin" position and you wouldn't know if it would be a helpdesk role to setup printers, or a role to manage windows desktops and Microsoft exchange, or anything to do with linux systems.

Now you can apply to a devops or SRE role and it's about Linux and automation. No more confusion with helpdesk.

[trabant00]

Actually we had linux and windows sysadmin in the job title. And devops/sre as I've said in the parent post rarely involve setting up the automation yourself. You just operate it with web interfaces, YAML files, or if you're lucky boilerplate terraform. Since moving to DevOps positions I write a lot less code for the job than when I was a sysadmin.