> What I’ve found is that pure “DevOps” roles have become a way for recruiters to sell people on being the ops person without them realizing it. Way waaaay bac

> What I’ve found is that pure “DevOps” roles have become a way for recruiters to sell people on being the ops person without them realizing it. Way waaaay back when I first heard of DevOps, it was described along the lines of "bringing developer best practices like automation and testing to ops". What you're seeing could be a remnant of that.