Fancy title for the developer that gets yelled at when the CI pipeline is broken. Also a good chance they are the one that broke it.

I thought devops was a way to get a guy to do a whole team’s job by giving him a silly title.

Well Devops isn’t a role. It’s an approach in which bridges development and operations and integrating it in the team. It isn’t sticking a cloud engineer (cloud biased sysadmin) in the team. It’s about collaboration and delegating and supporting.

Cloud engineer is unfortunately what many orgs think devops is.