I have had quite a few DevOps interviews lately, and it is just about to come off of my resume completely. I think that I genuinely confuse people, because I have a security patent from IBM, I seem to make little dashboard widgets, I talk in very abstract ways about agile thinking (functional scripting no less) but have not been a paid ‘developer’, but rather an Operations Person. Actually making code run consistently and streamlining processes, migrating from one solutions to the next, and then downloading, installing, and supporting all the fancy packages that you guys need has just always seemed more important to me. When I first started at IBM, there was so much work to do that was fulfilling that didn’t necessarily involve writing code.

I bring your legacy solutions directly to the door of Amazon and roll forward with a reasonable plan to get your entire infrastructure ported over to it, shut down your servers and pack them up to ship away, but I am not a developer. I am IT infrastructure, and if your team if of a certain size, then you really need a couple of guys like me. I live in the shell and code or learn new stuff like docker or aws because I enjoy it, but I really think that your dream Linux Admin/DBA/aws/Java coder is much rarer than you might imagine.

So maybe there are two very different sorts of DevOps people that need to be working together, like we always have.

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