Seems to me a decent s/w engineer or s/w developer should know a fair bit about devops, and a decent devops engineer should know about programming. so should be

Seems to me a decent s/w engineer or s/w developer should know a fair bit about devops, and a decent devops engineer should know about programming. so should be possible to flick between the roles. job title can mean different things in different places so shouldn't be taken too seriously