I have been lurking HN for a couple of years, but this comment made me create an account. I am all too familiar with the problems you're stating here. It is quite frustrating, really. People like myself are hired to change the system, destroy silos - then, they (management, generally) see that we're talented at building infrastructure, or some other task that we do, and they throw us into a traditional sysadmin role, and are confused why they can't hold on to a DevOps/SRE/WhateverEngineer for very long. Then they tell their managers that they have/are doing DevOps because they had a guy build some CI/CD pipelines and build out servers, probably manually 1-by-1 because the tools for automating that aren't allowed and the "DevOps" guy doesn't have entitlements to automate it. Not that I'd know anything about that...