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by jonny2112 1587 days ago
In my (very limited) experience, small companies that separate out SRE and devops are a bad smell when it comes to type of work. It ends up being something like:

Devops: Someone who is oncall for fixing all pipelines and making sure everyone has access/credentials for various services (AWS, git, etc). Maybe if they have time they can start to teraform things.

SRE: Someone who is just oncall for everything and doesn't have time to improve things

On the other hand when a job listing is not specific but mentions SRE/Devops, they seem to be looking for someone who can build new systems to make things better, rather than just keeping the lights on.