At least in my previous jobs, maintaining the artifactory instance included maintaining package integrity in the repositories. Answering questions about shadowing in Java, unpublishing in Node, upstream timelines for patched debs, and tracking deprecation was part of that the job - and the teams worked to make machines do as much of that job as possible.

Packages bootstrap filesystems for installations. We’ve parted out system administration at scale - multiple paths you can take.

About 3-5 years ago, give or take.