No, what they are really looking is for an ops person that has to sit in a dev team and do the part no one likes to do. s/He will be lucky if s/he can actually

No, what they are really looking is for an ops person that has to sit in a dev team and do the part no one likes to do. s/He will be lucky if s/he can actually spend 10% of his time producing application code. So? What's the problem with this? DevOps generally means someone who uses developer like approaches (e.g. scripting, automation, developing one-off solutions, etc) to solve operational issues. It is a role, and someone has to do it, and I would argue that there are people who love to do this role. But if someone sought a job in DevOps thinking they'd be producing application code, they only fooled themselves. If someone sees some sort of status issue and forever tries to fight against their role, well that's just detrimental to everyone.