I'm devops and in my opinion the title infers this; my job is to keep the communication between developers and the operations teams in sync and copacetic. Usually, Ops doesn't know dev and dev doesn't know ops so if there's nobody to translate and explain things in each others technical language things can't be done quickly and reliably. The wrong environments will be configured, things won't have backups, it will be like the wild west and things will be stressful for both sides.

My job, just like it was when I was a sysadmin, is to keep things running smoothly. To optimize both sides of the coin and to take things off their plate that I myself can deal with that might be a blocker to them finishing tasks and to us getting features out or server migrations done.

Some devs know ops and some ops know dev, those guys, more often than not I just check in with and see that things are running smoothly. For the other folk I try to create systems and workflows that get blockers out of their way.

I try to be a useful and reliable tool to both sides as much as I can be.

Hopefully the way I've been doing this for the last two years since I moved into a more Devops related role has been helpful to everyone.