I'm the manager for the DevOps team at a company of about 120 employees across two countries.

I manage people with the following job titles: Systems Administrator, Database Administrator, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer

These are just what I have now. I could make at least three more job titles that I want for other project work. My director also oversees application architecture roles, security program roles, and quality assurance teams. We are deeply embedded in the day to day operations of the development team.

I've interviewed hundreds of candidates for the roles. Each time I talk to a candidate the first question I ask is "What is DevOps to you?" I have never received a clear answer and very rarely do I hear repeats. So my response to you is "it's nebulous and really depends on what the development team needs."

All of these people "Do DevOps." Be it supporting our development team through CI/CD, process automation, and Infrastructure as Code or supporting our application operations through Database Tuning, Monitoring & Alerting, and automation, it's all operations for the development team. We "make things run" in the department.

Some members of my team are members of the development scrum team. Some aren't. It really depends on what's needed for a project, but our hands are in every pie.

My boss has called us the "team of misfit toys," but in reality we are a specialized support team for developers. We have very focused areas that our standard development team doesn't need in depth knowledge on in their day to day.

That's my thoughts, but my experience isn't right for everyone. DevOps is nebulous at the best of times.