Confused about which job headline I should put (Backend vs DevOps/SysAdmin)

[u/National_Skirt3164]

I have been doing backend development for years, but at each company I was also managing the deployment and the DevOps part, this includes:

- managing the cloud infra with clickops (azure/hetzner/ovh/aws), simple one time configurations

- sshing into the servers

- being the guy who's called each time prod was down

after a while, I got to learn other tools, so now I'm doing everything in IaC (terraform), no more clickops, also doing the ci/cd, monitoring, trying to add better observability, trying to cut the costs..

even if my job is officially "Backend Engineer", I'm spending a lot of time in the infra.

I like it a lot actually, I'm a fan of Linux since many many years, have 4 servers that I manage for my own projects, so having to handle those production ready systems made me learn a lot :)

now about the question: I find Cloud/DevOps/SysAdmin/Infra (don't know which one to chose there) really valuable in the long term as a career, but I'm still advertising myself as a backend dev/engi. -> how should I position myself in the market?

"Backend / Devops" ? -> how can I be both? sounds like a devaluation or greedy.

"Backend / Cloud " -> Maybe?

I mean about the terms, I often find them confusing too. There is a value in just having one expertise on linkedin for example, since you are seen as the "backend guy" rather than the "guy who knows multiple stuff but may not know them that well"

[u/justanotherraj]

Use Senior Software Engineer. It carries a lot of weight and kind of summarises everything that you're doing. Also it makes your CV much more easier for job portals to find.

[u/TehBens]

No need to decide, you can just change it according to the job ad.