[mattbrewsbytes]

> I did manage to do _some_ programming in my current job (writing queries for parsing security logs, shell scripts for processing plain text data, etc...)

Do you consider devops types of roles software development and something you'd do? Those tasks you describe sound like sys-adminy types of things. Maybe try applying to that type of position?

Another option is to just get same role you have now but in an organization that has people writing code as a major deliverable of the company. I'm assuming there aren't teams like this in your current organization.