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It’s a warning. If they call it that, be wary of signing on.

Unless, you know, you like doing ops work all day every day.

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I just saw a job description with a Software Engineer title and had this as the description:

"looking for an amazing Engineer who will be responsible for the design, implementation, configuration and support of the software product; including specifying, provisioning and operating our cloud infrastructure"

It's a good company but I probably won't apply because I've no idea if I would be coding or provisioning cloud infrastructure.

I recently did a round of interviews at different companies, most of them small-ish (<100 people). I'm a "pure developer" without any real experience in AWS/Docker/Kubernetes. Even for just plain "Software Engineer" roles, this was consistently a negative mark for me as a candidate. Not an automatic deal breaker, but I think it made the difference in a couple of cases.

> It's a good company but I probably won't apply because I've no idea if

You could ask them when you talk to them...

I've been in my current job for 7/8 years so not really sure how the interview process works. I saw the ad on LinkedIn and it looks like the only option to proceed is to send a CV.

I could only wish the distinction was explicit. It's been my experience that they don't call it that but instead expect the application developers to handle everything which leads to a big ball of configuration management mud.

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