If you're writing Ansible playbooks and keeping a deep understanding of the system in your head, just call yourself "devops" or "SRE" and roll with it.... More

If you're writing Ansible playbooks and keeping a deep understanding of the system in your head, just call yourself "devops" or "SRE" and roll with it.... More to the point, anyone who can write good, robust Ansible playbooks and who can actually deeply understand the system to the point of being able to debug a misbehaving system and reproduce problems effectively is necessarily a competent, qualified developer. You might not enjoy writing large new software systems (I don't) but you certainly could do it, you have all the skills and then some. If you're a qualified operator who is also a qualified developer, "devops" is probably a more accurate descriptor than "sysadmin" (even though, yes, in theory "devops" is not a job title but an organizational practice).