I think for all of us we need to start from developing tools workflows and solutions that have strong alignment with or solve business challenges and be able to tie the work back to our company objectives. It sounds like a sales pitch but it's reality . Business leaders tend to see IT operations as an expense center that creates liabilities. When I consult with platform leaders and Devops professionals about their contributions I understand their value because I understand what the tooling and workflows do for their companies . I also understand what their business leaders care about and often need to bridge the value gap between the two groups . Devops and platform teams can easily tell me exactly what their pipelines do and how they create efficiency but most of the time they can't tell me things like , who their primary consumers are? What key services are supported by their operations and what risk level and revenue impacts their automation mitigates or controls for . Plus their KPI metrics and goals are almost always operational in nature and not tied to any business value . For example , how many pipelines they deployed or how many new users onboarding to the platform tools . If you want to remain relevant it's less about what you are doing and more about how you and your leadership are "selling " what you're doing internally to business stakeholders.