What is a DevOps engineer?

Nirmal Mehta: This is where it gets controversial because there's no such thing as a DevOps engineer. There shouldn't even be a DevOps team because to me, it's more of a cultural and philosophical methodology. It's a process and a way of thinking about things and communicating within an IT organization.

"There's no such thing as a DevOps engineer. There shouldn't even be a DevOps team because to me, it's more of a cultural and philosophical methodology."

— Nirmal Mehta

But going back to a definition, I think that a DevOps engineer is a job that signals that an organization, instead of hiring both a developer and an operator, just wants one less person to do twice as much work.

Viktor Farcic: I love that description. Even though no one but you will admit it, that's often how it is in reality. You can tell just by looking at advertised job descriptions for DevOps...