Devops is the buzzword of the month in IT. If you are wanting to get into it I'd say start applying for jobs now. It will definitely give you a better idea where you want to go, you get paid while learning, and you are not spending time learning a technology you may end up not using.

One big thing about devops (and cloud). It is basically a requirement to know some programming. Python is a very in demand language currently (I'm having trouble finding folks), Powershell/C#/.net experience is also in high demand.

About that buzzword comment. There are a lot of jobs on the career sites with devops in the title that are not really doing what the devops philosophy is about. Also a lot of companies touting they do devops but not really doing it in practice.