A DevOps team is a development team that practices DevOps. It is not an operations team that handles deployments and build pipelines, monitoring, infrastructure, etc. for development teams. The term DevOps is a combination of the terms development and operations, but it is not just an abbreviation of “development operations” (at least not in the sense of “operations for development”). It is about closing the gaps between development and operations through culture, collaboration and automation.
The term DevOps team is often misused in a way that makes it obvious no DevOps is to be found in that team at all. For example, when the DevOps team is an ops (operations) team that just uses more modern tools than classical system admins and calls itself DevOps team because it sounds more cutting-edge. Worse even, when it refers to a “team of DevOps” where the “DevOps” are the individual operations engineers. If a person or a team calls themselves “DevOps” or “DevOps team”, signalling that DevOps is their main expertise, they better make sure they know what DevOps means in the first place.
Raimund Krämer 