It's always been the people, not the process. I've basically been the same sysadmin with a CS degree I've been since before I got a degree. I've been called a

It's always been the people, not the process. I've basically been the same sysadmin with a CS degree I've been since before I got a degree. I've been called a developer, a sysadmin, pool boy, IT, site reliability... It's all the same job - keep things scaling, running and watch the budget. Move the product forward by enabling the people who make the product. Occasionally be the adult in the room who knows how the sausage is made from the metal to the frontend. People try and put a label on it to market it so they can sell it back to you. My clients rarely know what I'm specifically I'm working on because I'm a technical grazer who just monitors the world looking for interesting problems - but they continue to pay me and I believe they extract a fairly positive value from me. If I ever stuck to a single job title, they'd probably expect me to stop grazing - but that's what makes me happy and productive.