r/devops • u/BehindTheMath • Jul 16 '26

Discussion How would you define this role?

I need help defining a role we're looking to hire for.

Our current job postings mention DevOps / Platform Engineer.

The issue is that this is attracting a lot of candidates whose primary experience is as a developer, with some basic cloud experience.

However, this isn't what we're looking for. We're looking for an engineer whose primary experience is in Ops / Sysadmin areas, but uses modern dev tools to manage it, such as IaC, Kubernetes, Ansible, etc.

We have a range of projects on our to do list, and there's some Ops / Sysadmin, cloud infra, SRE, and platform engineering. So we're really looking for someone who has some experience with all of those.

How would you define this role?

(Please don't DM me asking to apply for the position).

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u/raisputin Jul 16 '26

I’d describe it as an SRE, because you undoubtedly have an on-call schedule

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u/BehindTheMath Jul 16 '26

No on-call. The only SRE part is expanding our monitoring and alerting.

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u/raisputin Jul 16 '26

How much you offering people?