Software development, deployment and ops come under the same role. The DevOps engineer controls the horizontal and the vertical, the code, the environment, the build, the deployment, and as such is a multi-talented unicorn.
What it seems to have become -
Sysadmins writing scripts around terraform, and formalising their work to the extent that it is at least usually reproducible.
Well, at least the DevOps industry brings actual value to the process (well, not when you are sold OpenStack, OpenShift, Vault and whatever else to run a single container image).
Software development, deployment and ops come under the same role. The DevOps engineer controls the horizontal and the vertical, the code, the environment, the build, the deployment, and as such is a multi-talented unicorn.
What it seems to have become - Sysadmins writing scripts around terraform, and formalising their work to the extent that it is at least usually reproducible.