What is a DevOps engineer?
Nirmal Mehta: This is where it gets controversial because there's no such thing as a DevOps engineer. There shouldn't even be a DevOps team because to me, it's more of a cultural and philosophical methodology. It's a process and a way of thinking about things and communicating within an IT organization.
"There's no such thing as a DevOps engineer. There shouldn't even be a DevOps team because to me, it's more of a cultural and philosophical methodology."
— Nirmal Mehta
But going back to a definition, I think that a DevOps engineer is a job that signals that an organization, instead of hiring both a developer and an operator, just wants one less person to do twice as much work.
Viktor Farcic: I love that description. Even though no one but you will admit it, that's often how it is in reality. You can tell just by looking at advertised job descriptions...
