All of this reminded me of an article from long, long ago when I was a C# developer trying to break in to the #DBA space...and I was asking myself "What kind of #DBA do I want to be? What kind of DBA do I present myself as on my resume?"
I copied/pasted much of that article into a text file. I've searched for it online, but can no longer find it.
I suspect it was something Steve Jones wrote for SQLServerCentral(.)com.