I've certainly enjoyed the technical challenge of bringing in best practices and better tools, and I've really enjoyed playing the emissary between dev and ops

I've certainly enjoyed the technical challenge of bringing in best practices and better tools, and I've really enjoyed playing the emissary between dev and ops (a co-worker once called me a "one man DevOps team"). But the fact that there's no visibility until things go wrong - there's a real problem with the responsibility/authority ratio in that role.