> However, I know that I do not want to do Ops work professionally

It'd be helpful to know why you don't want to do Ops work. There are many roles that fall outside of DevOps that have the same downsides (frequent oncall, unpredictable workloads, further from the product, CEO doesn't understand what you do, etc). There are also roles that fall under DevOps that don't have some of those downsides (infrastructure architect-type roles).

For example, there are people in the comments recommending security, which is great for job security, but generally bad if you want to do interesting work. Usually developers do most of the actually interesting security work while security teams check boxes for SOCII audits unless you're working for a security product, which can be pretty competitive.