Engineer title alternative
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In my job I do software development, as well as IT tasks such as the designing of environments and the occasional administration.
I found it easiest to list myself as a IT/Software Engineer. However Engineer is a protected title in Canada. Do I list myself as sysadmin/software developer, or is there a better alternative?
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Developer is the most generally accepted alternative to engineer. Engineer is the most accurate title, however. In most cases.
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IT Admin / Software Developer seems most accurate. What are you engineering in IT? Are you software engineering or developing?
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@Obsolesce said in Engineer title alternative:
IT Admin / Software Developer seems most accurate. What are you engineering in IT? Are you software engineering or developing?
In IT, I engineer production and test environments. I do administration if there is something that has to get escalated to me.
Software developer would probably be more accurate. Some projects I am mostly just a developer, on others I participate in the engineering.
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@flaxking said in Engineer title alternative:
Software developer would probably be more accurate. Some projects I am mostly just a developer, on others I participate in the engineering.
All dev is engineering, there is no manufacturing step in the process. There are architects and engineers, analysts, etc. But everyone coding is an engineer.
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@flaxking said in Engineer title alternative:
@Obsolesce said in Engineer title alternative:
IT Admin / Software Developer seems most accurate. What are you engineering in IT? Are you software engineering or developing?
In IT, I engineer production and test environments. I do administration if there is something that has to get escalated to me.
Software developer would probably be more accurate. Some projects I am mostly just a developer, on others I participate in the engineering.
It kind of sounds like DevOps more than IT admin
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@IRJ said in Engineer title alternative:
@flaxking said in Engineer title alternative:
@Obsolesce said in Engineer title alternative:
IT Admin / Software Developer seems most accurate. What are you engineering in IT? Are you software engineering or developing?
In IT, I engineer production and test environments. I do administration if there is something that has to get escalated to me.
Software developer would probably be more accurate. Some projects I am mostly just a developer, on others I participate in the engineering.
It kind of sounds like DevOps more than IT admin
I got the impression that it was discrete roles. Writing code under one hat, doing IT under another.
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@IRJ said in Engineer title alternative:
@flaxking said in Engineer title alternative:
@Obsolesce said in Engineer title alternative:
IT Admin / Software Developer seems most accurate. What are you engineering in IT? Are you software engineering or developing?
In IT, I engineer production and test environments. I do administration if there is something that has to get escalated to me.
Software developer would probably be more accurate. Some projects I am mostly just a developer, on others I participate in the engineering.
It kind of sounds like DevOps more than IT admin
The problems with that is that
- The company doesn't really practice DevOps
- DevOps isn't really a role, when used like that it's just a buzzword for roles that already existed
- I would probably be the one administering our DevOps tools if I ever had the time to do so
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@scottalanmiller said in Engineer title alternative:
@IRJ said in Engineer title alternative:
@flaxking said in Engineer title alternative:
@Obsolesce said in Engineer title alternative:
IT Admin / Software Developer seems most accurate. What are you engineering in IT? Are you software engineering or developing?
In IT, I engineer production and test environments. I do administration if there is something that has to get escalated to me.
Software developer would probably be more accurate. Some projects I am mostly just a developer, on others I participate in the engineering.
It kind of sounds like DevOps more than IT admin
I got the impression that it was discrete roles. Writing code under one hat, doing IT under another.
That was my impression as well.
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@Obsolesce said in Engineer title alternative:
@scottalanmiller said in Engineer title alternative:
@IRJ said in Engineer title alternative:
@flaxking said in Engineer title alternative:
@Obsolesce said in Engineer title alternative:
IT Admin / Software Developer seems most accurate. What are you engineering in IT? Are you software engineering or developing?
In IT, I engineer production and test environments. I do administration if there is something that has to get escalated to me.
Software developer would probably be more accurate. Some projects I am mostly just a developer, on others I participate in the engineering.
It kind of sounds like DevOps more than IT admin
I got the impression that it was discrete roles. Writing code under one hat, doing IT under another.
That was my impression as well.
And that is true, for the most part.
