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In my experience a lot of people who started as developers 20+ years ago move on to system administration, and retitled themselves SRE/Devops over recent years.
by stevekemp 3y ago
In my experience a lot of people who started as developers 20+ years ago move on to system administration, and retitled themselves SRE/Devops over recent years.
I don't want to talk about ageism, or hiring biases, but I'd imagine if you found anyone who had an SRE-role and a long history they would be extremely likely to have had serious coding experience.
I've run into a few "young" devops engineers, and they tend to be more familiar with k8s, CI, and similar, rather than actually developing. But I guess that could well come down to the random people I've met, I wouldn't like to generalize.
- prmoustache 3y ago> In my experience a lot of people who started as developers 20+ years ago move on to system administration, and retitled themselves SRE/Devops over recent years. Usually they don't retitle themselves, companies do. It seems the whole IT industry just collectively decided to rename the sysadmin role as devops when using cloud and containers technologies regardless if they actually use DEVOPS methodology or not. That is my history as an engineer at least.
- stevekemp 3y agoAgreed. I'm an ex-developer, turned sysadmin. But these days my titles are Devops-This, and SRE-That. I find it hard to take too seriously, but I guess it is what it is.