I've worked as an SRE/DevOps engineer for 3ish years now. In my previous role, the company was smaller and there was a healthy on-call rotation that respected my psychological safety... but the job was boring.
I moved to a company that I'm a lot more interested in, but, my WLB is... not balanced.
I am always on-call for issues, and I have a lot of coworkers who aren't eager to assist, so a lot of things fall onto my plate. It's overwhelming, but I do usually manage to get things done. That being said, lately I've been feeling... burnt out? I am not even sure what burn out feels like, but I feel like I do not have energy or focus to tackle tasks like I used to. I used to be a machine, but nowadays I always feel bogged down.
I guess my question is... is this burnout? OR do I just need to find another role? Or am I having some other issue? Looking for some veterans to opine and maybe make an inference about my situation.
Needless to say, I "burned out" after maybe 3 weeks. Within 2 months, 8 of the 10 engineers left the company (including myself).
What's shitty about the term "burnout" is that it often blames employees for reacting to normal stressors like human beings. Based on your post, it sounds like you're giving your company your best efforts and they're squandering your energy.
I think you should start actively applying to other jobs before you lose the motivation to leave.