> The main difference between a software engineer and a devops engineer isn’t writing code, it’s the kind of code they write.
The other main difference is on your team. At my company we would expect that from a software engineer working on the platform, creating tools or shared libraries. A DevOps Engineer at my company would handle the orchastration of shared tools, (i.e. where is Jenkins hosted (VMs or Docker), how it scales, upgrades from Nexus to Artifactory, setting Dynatrace on prem with hooks into multiple cloud providers, the list goes on forever.)
Let's not assume all companies are the same, when probably half of DevOps roles are not about programming in an OO language and you can't easily or usefully unit test something that is like a configuration for mount locations across cloud provider
The other main difference is on your team. At my company we would expect that from a software engineer working on the platform, creating tools or shared libraries. A DevOps Engineer at my company would handle the orchastration of shared tools, (i.e. where is Jenkins hosted (VMs or Docker), how it scales, upgrades from Nexus to Artifactory, setting Dynatrace on prem with hooks into multiple cloud providers, the list goes on forever.)
Let's not assume all companies are the same, when probably half of DevOps roles are not about programming in an OO language and you can't easily or usefully unit test something that is like a configuration for mount locations across cloud provider