Thanks for the feedback. That's kind of what I figured; that employers will tend to anchor on your last role, so I'll try to make sure to get the message across that I want to do both development and ops in the future.

In your experience, do salaries cap out earlier say in Ops vs Dev? It seems like they could scale up equally high since whether you're producing value as a developer or, say, making a massive system x% more efficient, but obviously salary decisions can be constrained by HR's idea of what a role entails