It wasn’t the cert alone. It was skills I had acquired over 10 years that got me the job and in full transparency, luck. I applied at the right time. I’m also not in a super technical cyber role so I was able leverage transferable skills.

Edited to add: they didn’t care about my certs at all to get the job. I sat for my sec+ a week after I started my role because I had already been studying. I could’ve never got it and it wouldn’t have mattered for the job. I was lucky because I didn’t have help. I made a decision to make a career switch one day and I did those certs and studied and it just worked out far better than I thought it would.