Yeah I can see an argument for having development engineers and production engineers so that the devs writing new features can focus on that without getting distracted by production issues. The production engineers do monitoring, config management, and bug fixes for prod issues.
The problem is in most orgs, the roles for people who fight fires in production tend to be demoted to a lowly "support" title, and paid/hired for accordingly, which is really not commensurate with the value they provide to the organization.
The problem is in most orgs, the roles for people who fight fires in production tend to be demoted to a lowly "support" title, and paid/hired for accordingly, which is really not commensurate with the value they provide to the organization.