Probably the most devops-y thing you can do in an applications environment is operate a continuous delivery pipeline.
The most un-devops-y thing you can do is start a devops team.
So I thought it worth mentioning as one of those hybrid roles.
In this usage of "DevOps" it's a buzzword, and I recommend you should avoid anyone who puts buzzwords in your job title, because it speaks volumes up front about their culture and values and clarity of thinking.
I really do like the descriptor Site Reliability Engineer, though, for exactly the same reasons.
A lot of first-class *nix admins in my generation have a problem dealing with dev ideas in system context. In the company I am at now we have gone a step further and allowed dev/mgmt to control ops|prod and reserved system to sidestep the crapulence of this concept.
What happened here is that the scale of sysadmin tasks escalated to the point where software engineering skills brought some advantage. It did not, though, negate the importance of traditional sysadmin skills.
The best people in this space are those that can bridge both worlds. Not just "SRE" either. Devops is also a hybrid role, as is performance engineering.
Look at Adrian Cockroft's background as an example.