I had this happen to me from the other end. I was the lone programmer (and my title reflected that). After a new hire, I was told that I was some kind of engineer because my title had changed to that and that we are now DevOps, hooray! Not coincidentally, this was to be my final awful Agile experience.
The thing is, I am not gifted in the area of system administration. I am not too shabby at it in Windows, quite pathetic in Linux, but being a sysadmin was a role I had escaped for a reason. And suddenly I am back in it. I am a very low-tooling programmer. Just let me stick my hands in the data and go away. I have great respect for people who are system administrators but it is a job where my talents lie below my meager skills, and my inclination far below that.
Meanwhile, the true system administrators, who had been doing that for quite some time, had been denied the actual title for some time, were going to be moved over just as ... bodies, I guess, to elsewhere. All just ... DevOps now or whatever.
The thing is, I am not gifted in the area of system administration. I am not too shabby at it in Windows, quite pathetic in Linux, but being a sysadmin was a role I had escaped for a reason. And suddenly I am back in it. I am a very low-tooling programmer. Just let me stick my hands in the data and go away. I have great respect for people who are system administrators but it is a job where my talents lie below my meager skills, and my inclination far below that.
Meanwhile, the true system administrators, who had been doing that for quite some time, had been denied the actual title for some time, were going to be moved over just as ... bodies, I guess, to elsewhere. All just ... DevOps now or whatever.
What a trainwreck.