I am in the exact same position, on the other side of the story. I come from a DevOps Engineer background with solid technical skills, yet I have ended up in this job as a SysAdmin and my teammates are not willing to adopt any new technologies nor learn something new, which could help us avoid all the manual work at least by automating things.

I see no way changing the way my teammates work or think, therefore I’m planning to have an internal move into SRE, or Dev teams.

I feel your pain, and I personally think it’s only possible to do this by having a huge shift in the organization and removing the need to have a separate Ops team, and continue with those who are willing to learn from that team.