The older term "Systems Programmer" (which still exists primarily in academia, I had this title a few years ago at a university) has always felt more accurate t

The older term "Systems Programmer" (which still exists primarily in academia, I had this title a few years ago at a university) has always felt more accurate to me as the "high level operations person who has programming as a primary skillset" job that the original SRE job description seemed to be aimed at.