[noknownsender]

I'd add my anecdote to that assessment:

I'm a Sysadmin with some networking certs, and the linkedin messages have started coming in more frequently, and stating (quite good) salaries up front.

So it certainly does not seem like are 100,000 unemployed sysadmins in the job market currently.

[hotpotamus]

I get the feeling it's seen as an unattractive janitorial job which is perhaps why there are so many attempts to re-title the job as Devops or SRE or Platform Engineer or whatever the de jure is.

I suppose if I had to pick my title, I'd just say "Infrastructure Engineer" because that seems to strike the right balance of vague yet fancy enough to put in an email signature. Really it would be "IT Dude (open source focused)".

As much as companies want to seem to believe they can get rid of them, they need someone generalist around who understands how things fit together and can take on the occaisional maintenance task.