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> (...) an Operations Engineer (...) An operations engineer and a sysadmin are two entirely different roles. A system administrator administers systems while
by arinlen 4y ago
> (...) an Operations Engineer (...)
An operations engineer and a sysadmin are two entirely different roles.
A system administrator administers systems while an operations engineer dedicated their time writing code to automate processes.
- dijit 4y agoYou're conflating an IT Technician and a Sysadmin. Sysadmins automate their work. Operations Engineer is just another title for sysadmin. Systems Engineer is also another title for the same thing. Platform Engineering (depending on where you are) is yet another variation. If you're responsible for the operating system, monitoring, clustering, hardware etc; then you're firmly in "sysadmin" land.
- boltzmann-brain 4y agoThis whole string of conversation is some of the most horrendous navel gazing I've had in my comments for a while.
- dijit 4y agoWelcome to Hackernews. Pedantry is requisite.
- arinlen 4y ago> Sysadmins automate their work. So do janitors. What's your point? > Operations Engineer is just another title for sysadmin. It really isn't. That makes as much sense as claiming that DevOps is just a sysadmin that's also a developer.
- icedchai 4y agoJob titles are mostly meaningless when comparing across organizations (and often within organizations, when they are large enough.) Many "operations engineers" are actually sysadmins. Many "devops" are really sysadmins also doing development.