There were sysadmins doing automation before people invented DevOps, and they had similar challenges: finding time for &quot;projects&quot; in between fixing the printer. A good book on this is Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas Limoncelli. It&#x27;s short and humorous and might give you some ideas. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;re going to change the organization, but you might be able to improve things here and there and get more personal satisfaction from your work.<p>Maybe also find out who wrote that job description. Perhaps you can make a case that you were given a mandate to push the organization toward better practices. But in that case perhaps you should also ask for a promotion, because it doesn&#x27;t sound like you have the authority to make the changes you&#x27;d like.