There Is No Such Thing As A DevOps Engineer

Qazi Murtaza Ahmed
4 min readDec 8, 2020
Senior DevOps Engineer

This piece of jumble up words is not going to define What DevOps is; if anything, if you require that information I would suggest reading The Phoenix Project, this book truly contributes to the solution, with which it was coined back in 2009, after Phoenix project, DevOps started trending and everyone started jumping on the bandwagon, with no one really knowing, what it is, or what it means, they just knew some tools with which you could automate ops stuff.

Cloud providers came into the picture couple years ahead, which encouraged automation and thus the role came into existence DevOps Engineer, it skyrocketed from there on and everyone who was something wanted to migrate to DevOps role. It became so important for a growing organization, this person was a must.

Now every company who had a DevOps Engineer thought they were at the bleeding edge.🤣I was also in that said bandwagon, I might still be 😁

I am not saying we should not do DevOps, we are definitely at the right place, just as agile is important, so is DevOps, but it is Culture or Practice, not a ROLE…

So now you have three departments Developer, IT and DevOps, now SIR; you went totally wrong, DevOps Practice suggests to break the silos of the developers and IT, but you went ahead and created a third silo. 👏

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Qazi Murtaza Ahmed
Qazi Murtaza Ahmed

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