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Re:We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS by dijit on Thursday September 29, 2022 @09:04AM (#33020027)
You're conflating an IT Technician and a Sysadmin.

Sysadmins automate their work. Operations Engineer is just another title for sysadmin.

Systems Engineer is also another title for the same thing.

Platform Engineering (depending on where you are) is yet another variation.

If you're responsible for the operating system, monitoring, clustering, hardware etc; then you're firmly in "sysadmin" land.

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Re:We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS by boltzmann-brain on Thursday September 29, 2022 @12:07PM (#33022616)
This whole string of conversation is some of the most horrendous navel gazing I've had in my comments for a while.
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Re:We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS by dijit on Thursday September 29, 2022 @12:10PM (#33022667)
Welcome to Hackernews.

Pedantry is requisite.

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Re:We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS by arinlen on Thursday September 29, 2022 @01:05PM (#33023728)
> Sysadmins automate their work.

So do janitors. What's your point?

> Operations Engineer is just another title for sysadmin.

It really isn't. That makes as much sense as claiming that DevOps is just a sysadmin that's also a developer.

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Re:We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS by icedchai on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:44PM (#33026912)
Job titles are mostly meaningless when comparing across organizations (and often within organizations, when they are large enough.)

Many "operations engineers" are actually sysadmins. Many "devops" are really sysadmins also doing development.

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