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It is becoming rare, because management who ultimately hires and fires people, wants things done faster. They think that making devs responsible for ops stuff,

• jsmthrowaway 10y ago
  Sr. Site Reliability Engineer here. (Itself a complex title, varying by employer.) I have taken to identifying myself as an Operations Engineer for this very reason. I'm an engineer focused on operations. Tada. You want some operating and I do some engineering to get there, and all of that is clearly printed on my tin. Some might disagree with my reduction, but I feel that it fits well what I do. Pretty much everybody who knows their way around a compiler and administers systems could probably take this title and be fine, and then you're not suffering under the yoke of devops or whatever. Because when I hear "developer," I can't help but think a feature engineer on the product side for some reason. Same with that word creeping into "devops," and that leads to things like "full stack" engineering -- creating the impression that only a select few work with or consider "the whole stack," which is a scary subliminal message. Even if you're a developer simply changing the colors on the Facebook feed or something, you should always be thinking about the full scope of things and how your changes will be operated. (Your operations nerds will love you if you think about us ahead of time.) As an aside, systems administrator with no software skills is a totally and completely fine career, with a number of very smart people (and friends, still proudly announcing every year of uptime in texts), and in a lot of these discussions I see them denigrated. Just remember that, not saying anyone is doing it.