I think it's great to "bring" knowledge to devs in this model. But not commit to individual wishes for features and implement them willy illy. The "ops guy" needs a team too, preferably to build a company shared platform that suits the large majority. This only goes of course when you either hit scale or are a large company. When smaller it's perfectly fine to unload unwanted things to one or two people. I do very strongly believe in "you build it you run it". Keeping servers up is different than keeping your application up. I think a dev should know what health checks/probes are, what a good period time they need for their application. It's the "ops guy"'s job to make the dev guys job as easy as possible and bring expertise and knowledge when needed