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Why do you think unix sysadmin function is dying? Just curious.

As an ex-sysadmin I find that a lot of what I used to be responsible for is now outsourced to "the cloud" and most of my old tasks are being handled by other people as a secondary responsibility. Back when I started it wasn't uncommon for a 20-50 man company to have a dedicated sysadmin, whereas now I hardly ever see that.

I see this too, and i think it is a shame/mistake, i'd recommend to keep such people on board, and expand their workload/responsibilities when sysadmin work is on the low. (though when needed they should be able to dedicated their full time on sysadmin related work).

I then see it happen they no longer have any knowledge about systems and their processes, just outsourcing. And often, things then go downhill quite fast in service which leads to less happy customers which leads to lower company/employee moral etc.

People not knowing what computing power certain processes need or what its worth in money (over/under specced nodes), or backup processes not properly monitored or setup.

DevOps duh

In all seriousness I'm glad with these changes. I'm paid more to be NIX sysadmin, with minimal working knowledge of AWS/Azure/GCP.

All hail buzzword!

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