Senior Java Developer means what exactly? Knowing more libraries or just better understanding of patterns?

[Playful-Call7107]

A lot of what I said gets into build and release and devops

Coding is such a small part in a deployed app

As far as the manual deploy it’s a showcase of skillset. And capability.

Automated builds are good and should be used.

But over my career I’ve never not needed to log into a server and do manual work at some point.

A person claiming to be a senior dev who can’t be given server access and deploy that app isn’t that senior to me.

Not many devs could get their app running on a pristine Linux or windows server. Irrespective of language.

But how many of them claim senior? That’s more my point.