DevOps

When to Use

• Build, fix, or optimize CI/CD pipelines and release automation
• Implement GitOps, artifact promotion, container delivery, or environment automation
• Set up service observability, SLOs, alerting, and runbooks for delivery infrastructure
• Operate on-call workflows for build, deploy, and runtime reliability issues
• Standardize deployment mechanics for application teams

When NOT to Use

• Design rollout strategy, cutover, rollback triggers, or release risk tiers → deployment-strategist
• Build internal developer portals, golden paths, or platform-as-product roadmaps → platform-engineer
• Provision core cloud networks, IAM, or Terraform modules as the main task → infrastructure-engineer
• Add security gates, SBOMs, artifact signing, or CI threat modeling → devsecops
• Design SEV programs, paging policy, or postmortem process → incident-management-engineer
• Deep SLO/error-budget program, PRR, reliability engineering per service → site-reliability-engineer