I would call what you’re describing Datacenter Operations, with the exception of PXE boot. You could have SRE do it, but most places don’t because you can get

I would call what you’re describing Datacenter Operations, with the exception of PXE boot. You could have SRE do it, but most places don’t because you can get someone to swap a dead drive for way cheaper (it’s not really a complicated operation). That growth of SRE teams comes from wanting reliability further up the stack. If you’re not on AWS, there’s no Aurora so someone has to be DBA to do backups, performance monitoring, configuring failovers for when a disk dies and RAID needs to rebuild, etc. Same for network, networked storage, yada yada