Not an offer, but a suggestion as an ex IT dude that transitioned into devops/site reliability engineering. You could look for a junior devops role somewhere or

Not an offer, but a suggestion as an ex IT dude that transitioned into devops/site reliability engineering. You could look for a junior devops role somewhere or look for a smaller org with a team where there is a blend of IT and devops work so that you could start to learn the devops side (this is kind of how I moved into the software side more). The pay is great and some of your skillsets in IT will overlap with devops work. Universities don't really teach devops skills so there always seems to be very high demand for the devops side as well. I don't develop apps but have written a ton of stuff in python for managing infrastructure.