> Software engineering is about writing code, devops is about writing yaml files and keying into functionality that was implemented by software engineers.
This attitude is the ultimate reason for dysfunctional development teams and the source of the barrier between operations and development.
It’s not meaningfully true at all. The problems I deal with as a DevOps engineer are much broader, more abstract, more interdependent, and the solutions much less established than those that I dealt with as an SE. Unless you’re an SE in some particularly complex domain with especially limited resources (which are essentially attributes of DevOps work—SE work applied to a difficult domain under tighter-than-usual constraints), DevOps is probably the more advanced role.
This attitude is the ultimate reason for dysfunctional development teams and the source of the barrier between operations and development.
It’s also toxic.