> being in the war room when a data center goes under
When doesn't this involve devs? If you have ops separate and isolated from the development effort, a devs representation will have to get involved at some point.
Imagine managing a gitlab instances. You're doing it for years and have a stable environment. If one of the instance gets hammered by external traffic or one of your data center dies, will you call the gitlab devs to deal with it ?
Depending on the size of the deployment. (Not sure what you mean with "one of your data center" though) If it's just you, you deal with it. If you're running a bigger deployment, you likely have GitLab devs internally that will be reachable. Even bigger - you're likely to have access to upstream devs in the ultimate tier even with self hosting.
When doesn't this involve devs? If you have ops separate and isolated from the development effort, a devs representation will have to get involved at some point.
So... Yes, sometimes you will.