It's also interesting that the cloud engineer can apparently be both a DBA, network-, storage- and backup engineer, but if you move the same services on-prem, you apparently need specialists for each task.

Sometimes even the certified cloud engineers can't tell you why an RDS behaves the way it does, nor can they really fix it. Sometimes you really do need a DBA, but that applies equally to on-prem and cloud.

I'm a sysadmin, but have been labelled and sold as: Consultant (sounds expensive), DevOps engineer, Cloud Engineer, Operations Expert and right now a Site Reliability Engineer.... I'm a systems administrator.

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Aeolun 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

If you’ve started working in the industry more than about 15 years ago all the titles sound quaint.

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icedchai 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I haven't seen a company that hired DBAs in over 15 years. I think the "DevOps" movement sent them packing, along with SysAdmins.

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dijit 5 days ago | parent [-]

Sysadmins never left, they just got rebranded.

	▲	icedchai 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I actually agree with this. I meant you never seen roles with the "system administrator" job title, not that it actually disappeared as a function. DBAs on the other hand, I do think that has mostly been absorbed into other roles.

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data_marsupial 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Need to get Platform Engineer for a full house