[dijksterhuis]

Ops person(s) embedded within the Dev team dealing with/helping with/teaching about that one team's "Ops stuff" --> DevOps --> team gets faster because no Ops team hoops to jump through.

A separate DevOps team --> corporate rebrand of the separate Ops team --> no real change, or even slower because more hoops to jump through.

DevOps was always about meant to be about breaking down the separate / silo'd teams and combining them together. Ownership and responsibility is with that single team for their code from development through to production.

The corporate rebrand of Ops teams is what you're coming up against. It does my nut in and I'm sorry to that you have to deal with it.