I'm one of those old sysadmins/DBA's, and having worked in devops for a year or two a few years back, I was able to take the best parts of it that I found usefu

I'm one of those old sysadmins/DBA's, and having worked in devops for a year or two a few years back, I was able to take the best parts of it that I found useful, and leave the rest for the internet widget crowd to bicker about on here and in the workplace. I brought CI/CD, automated deployments, and infra tests with me to what was a very "retro" non-cloud UNIX style environment. I left all the horseshit (kanban, retrospectives, scrum) for the others that are not really all that interested in actually getting shit done. While those guys had a bunch of shiny tools to play with all day long, they lacked basic UNIX skills that us old guys have, and you had to continually had to show them how it was done. The results speak for themselves. Couldn't be happier (or more securely employed) at this stage of my life.