Re: If they’re a 'DevOps Expert', they probably aren’t
If you catch them young and enthusiastic enough, yes: it can be made to work, really well. I've seen it and worked in such an org for a couple of years not that long ago.
Admittedly the level of clue in the org was way ahead of generic IT shops. The level of stupidity and ignorance even at the 'five years experience" level for generic sysadmin / engineer never ceases to amaze me.
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