here is the context: Mid size (1000 users) company that has been trying to do in-house software dev (outsourced to south east Asia) with poor results.

Company IT side is fairly mature, heavily virtualized, hybrid on prem/cloud, but a bit weak on the Azure side. Existing sysadmins are pretty solid.

The dev is, well a shitshow. We are presented with projects with no infrastructure requirements, the devs dont really seem to know what they need. Currently they are doing everything in Blazor after we begged them to move to cloud. Last few attempts to develop mobile apps has been an abysmal failure. Im dumbfounded by what I see (and I've never coded). Coding is all shoved into a single .dll, no comments, devs dont seem to know that we need to use HTTPS, dont understand key vaults (we caught them passing passwords in clear text). we had to fight with them to implement change control, and they dont seem to understand our efforts to move ahead with pipelining.

My question for you is, do I need a devops admin? Can a more senior devops admin also be involved in reviewing code? infrastructure planning?

not sure how to move forward