Not in real life. Usually, in most orgs, career oriented people in ops pick the sexy, easy to sell aspects. At best, they delegate the non-sexy basics to capable people. Usually those aspects are just ignored so, because someone will sort this easy stuff out.

The notable exception here is, and that is a common theme, Amazon. Amazon realized how important ops and logistics and SCM are for their success. So they put them at their core (let's ignore AWS for now, I assume the AWS guys put ops at the center of stuff as well so). And it shows. Not everything was rosy at Amazon for sure, as relentless as Amazon is with operations it is with politics. And still, for an ops guy like myself it was the best place I ever worked at.