What I have seen when interviewing at tech startups in the bay area (and I've interviewed with a lot) is that devops roles are primarily operations roles, with an added emphasis on working with developers to get code out quickly. Simple as that. Companies still expect the devops guys to do all the sysadminy stuff, and respond to alerts and put out fires.
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What I have seen when interviewing at tech startups in the bay area (and I've interviewed with a lot) is that devops roles are primarily operations roles, with an added emphasis on working with developers to get code out quickly. Simple as that. Companies still expect the devops guys to do all the sysadminy stuff, and respond to alerts and put out fires.