[stvvvv]

Former sysadmin and I've been an SRE for >15 years now.

They are very different. If your SREs are spending much of their time chasing fires, they are doing it wrong.

[ottah]

Unfortunately sometimes it's more of a title than a job description. Company's define the job, and call it what ever they feel like.

[stvvvv]

Right, unfortunately too many people re-brand their ops team as SREs and expect things to be different.