So far I've wall-papered the internet with my new resume, no takers yet. But plenty of DevOps gigs which I don't really want to consider. Over my 26 year career, Ive been around infrastructure, either building or project planning entire networks from the ground up as a Field Engineer, or securing/segmenting them via patching or Vlans, firewalling with Sonicwall, using the best practices we all know. I also worked as a manager and a team lead.
Cybersecurity jobs that Ive been applying for require specific experience as a "Cybersecurity professional" with a minimum of 5 in that role as an example. Which I don't have, so I'm not being even considered. So Im not sure how to fix this weird reality of not having enough experience as a "Cybersecyurity professional" .