I recently posted and filled a position that I ended up calling "DevOps Engineer". I'm in a situation where we "outsource" the baseline sysadmin to the University's central IT organization (where I used to work as a sysadmin). The library IT group has a lot of developers building nifty applications and services (perhaps you've heard of arxiv.org, for instance).
This person's job is to build and manage the layer in between what central IT provides (OS install, patching, backups, VM environment, whatnot) and what the developers do (write code) by making sure we've got good practices in the middle on things like apache, tomcat, rails/passenger, drupal (yes, we've got a lot of diversity in our evironment.) Since central IT uses cfengine for their stuff, we use puppet for ours and it mostly plays nicely together. To some extent, I didn't call it a systems administrator position because HR would then ask why we're hiring sysadmins when we already pay central IT for sysadmin services. So, giving it a different name worked better politically. But, it's also not traditional sysadmin per se, so it felt appropriate to me. -- Christopher Manly Coordinator, Library Systems Cornell University Library Information Technologies c...@cornell.edu 607-255-3344 On 5/8/14, 7:13 PM, "Michael Johnson" <m...@michaelpjohnson.com> wrote: >Has anyone here changed their job title (or had it changed) to reflect >the more DevOps culture companies seem to be adopting? I have actually >seen people use DevOps in their job title, but that feels wrong to me. >How do you go from a Senior Systems Administrator to something like >Senior DevOps Engineer? What would a job description for something like >this even be? I have the privilege of being able to influence this >title, but I am having trouble defining it since most SAs and Devs seem >to disagree on what DevOps even is. > >So I thought I'd turn to my colleagues at LOPSA first since I'm sure >many of you have at least thought of this before. > >Head Chef? Master Puppeteer? > >Thanks, >Michael Johnson >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss@lists.lopsa.org >https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
