[jimbokun]

> You measure software engineering performance by their dev ops skills?

Absolutely! That is the "dev" in dev ops.

I think there are few things that increases the productivity of a dev team more than improved processes.

> Why is knowing where the log files are, and knowing how to do complicated test setups for your specific environment a performance measure.

Because if you don't know those things you are much less helpful to your product team.