[DRAFT] Hiring DevOps Won't Buy You Continuous Delivery

So, I’ve been lurking around various places in the devops world over the years, and lately I’ve been cruising job postings related to it. I had a conversation last Friday with a colleague, and during I began to wax philosophical about the purview of devops. Afterwards I realized I’d touched on something that I haven’t seem much discussion around.

I must admit, I used to think of it as a job title too, but I’ve learned much since then. What kind of activities do you expect to hire this new person to perform?

• Build out and maintain your Jenkins / Travis / et al server?
• Build out and maintain your Artifactory / et al server?
• Build out and maintain various build scripts in your system?