[toomuchtodo]

Also late 30s, moved from DevOps to security. I went from ~$15k below DevOps national market rate to very roughly double that in a few weeks changing roles. I highly recommend the transition for all ops/infra/devops folks. The market for security engineers and architects is on fire right now.

Businesses want DevOps, no one wants to pay for it (as you point out, "Take a lower-paying job with folks 15 years younger just so I can pick up Docker, Kubernetes, etc. That's a 30-40K pay decrease in New York."). The market has spoken, go where the dollars are (and the on-call rotation and fire drills aren't). Get paid for what you know, not selling each hour of writing code or infrastructure via DSL and the PagerDuty rotation.

OP: I'm happy to connect you with some NY specific recruiters for the job type I mention.

[garg]

What type of security job did you switch to? Are you auditing code for security flaws? Are you creating organizational security policies? Is it a management position?

[toomuchtodo]

Email in profile, happy to answer your questions.

[randodevopsdude]

I sent you an email as well. Interested in the same type of switch. Thanks for posting.