It's definitely misnamed, but it's unfortunately far from unheard of. A lot of people just really like the old dev-ops distinction and apply it to whatever the

It's definitely misnamed, but it's unfortunately far from unheard of. A lot of people just really like the old dev-ops distinction and apply it to whatever the trendy terminology of the day is. Even at Google, I'm familiar with a few rare cases where SREs hold the pager for application code, albeit in very special circumstances.