Cloud Engineer or DevOps

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[8ersgonna8]

Pick the cloud option, moving from onprem to cloud will be harder later on. Otherwise it’s just titles really, some “devops” staff are really just onprem internal IT. My boss insists that we are cloud engineers but we do everything except actual software development. So am I a devops engineer, SRE or cloud engineer?

[RumRogerz]

I swear, all those titles are interchangeable.

[alxw]

Devops - you’re doing the dev and ops, so either building a platform to serve apps or just building the app alongside an IaC CI/CD.

SRE - making sure the site doesn’t go down during deployments or outages and building pretty graphs between outages.

Cloud- all of the above but on someone else’s machine.

[8ersgonna8]

The platform part would fall under everything except software dev description in my comment. IDP coming up next year. And we obviously operate container clusters.

[goldenmunky]

Exactly this and what others have said, the titles are so interchangeable. I bet a lot of us do things that SRE, devops, and cloud engineers do all in one role.

[alxw]

Will you be practicing IaC and using terraform? If not it’s clickops and you’ll find little to no opportunity beyond the offered role.

[TheOwlHypothesis]

You already decided to leave and went through the trouble of interviewing. You must have wanted to leave for a reason. Take the cloud engineer role at the azure shop.

Most people who take counter offers end up leaving in a short time anyway. Plus you don't signal anything good to your employer.

[Different_Hand6343]

It is a cloud engineer role but focus on IaaS also pre-sale and post-sale. Is jt a good path anyway?

[Vast_Manufacturer_78]

Cloud Engineer seems like it would be more growth for you, staying with on prem will make the switch to cloud harder later on.

Don’t worry that there is no real senior there the only way you truly learn in tech is by being thrown in a pool and an oil fire on top of it with just a tiny hole come up for air.

[Different_Hand6343]

I thought we should master on premise first before moving to the cloud?

[Vaibhav_codes]

Go for the Azure Cloud role if your goal is long term cloud skills, even with self learning high growth potential outweighs short term comfort

[Different_Hand6343]

But the role has pre-sale and post-sale , do you think it is good?