Everywhere you see the word "devops" replace it with the word "empathy".
That was the true meaning of DevOps - fostering empathy and communication between different groups, and to stop the siloed "throw code over the wall to Ops" mentality that existed.
By having a "DevOp's Engineer" you have admitted you have failed at DevOps, because you have created a new silo.
A good team will have a combination of Operations Engineers, Software Engineers, Automation Engineers and Test Engineers all of whom work together, and collaborate on tooling, processes and deployments, who also share in the rewards for a projects success, and share in the responsibility for when something goes wrong.
DevOps is not a team created to "provide DevOps services to R&D" - which is the basic job description for far to many DevOps jobs postings.
It is also not just handy R&D pagers, and expecting them to manage a system.
Of course all of this is talking about the initial spirit of DevOps, not the current "Buy my Book", consultant driven mess that is now associated with the word.
That was the true meaning of DevOps - fostering empathy and communication between different groups, and to stop the siloed "throw code over the wall to Ops" mentality that existed.
By having a "DevOp's Engineer" you have admitted you have failed at DevOps, because you have created a new silo.
A good team will have a combination of Operations Engineers, Software Engineers, Automation Engineers and Test Engineers all of whom work together, and collaborate on tooling, processes and deployments, who also share in the rewards for a projects success, and share in the responsibility for when something goes wrong.
DevOps is not a team created to "provide DevOps services to R&D" - which is the basic job description for far to many DevOps jobs postings.
It is also not just handy R&D pagers, and expecting them to manage a system.
Of course all of this is talking about the initial spirit of DevOps, not the current "Buy my Book", consultant driven mess that is now associated with the word.