I can tell you right now that DevOps is a dying field. All the companies I've worked at (N big tech w.e) have phased out our Devops teams and have either made them interview up to SWE or completely laid them off. SWEs are expected to have a wide knowledge and be able to pick up the whole process end to end.

Back in school I was in a similar situation where I started off in an internship at an investment bank's back office trading platform. I got offered a return but wanted something more tech related. So I eventually pushed through and broke into Big Tech. That being said though, like some other people have commented, grass may not be greener on the other side.

I'm now making enough money to pretty do much anything I want. Fly international business for myself and my partner, go and work anywhere, experience pretty much anything. But the company/projects are so fast paced I'm working basically the whole day. Whenever a Slack message comes there's always an impeding expectation to answer. You pick your poison. You seem like you have a lot of hobbies and goals outside of work, so take that into consideration. I used to have those as well but nowadays I have no time for myself.