I think nowadays requiring that all application developers should also do ops (DevOps?) is a bad idea. Sure they should have basic shell skills, but when you’re on Kubernetes or similar, understanding what’s underneath is not vital. Instead, rely on specialized teams that actually want to know this stuff, and become the experts you escalate to only when things really go sideways and the abstractions fail (which is rare if you do it well). If your budget is too small for this, there are always support contracts.

As someone who’s been hiring for both sides, I see this reflected in candidates more and more. The good devs rarely know ops, and the good ops rarely code well. For our “platform” teams, we end up just hiring good devs and teaching them ops. I think the people that are really good at both often end up working at the actual cloud providers or DevOps startups.