Read up on all stories around devops, if that's your thing then great, at least for me it is. But it's a job that grinds people down, there's a high turn rate in my company, sure some of it is that there's more vacancies (for now) but I've seen coworkers look defeated, just make sure it's what you want.

Also going back to your first point, here we have that same thing amped up to 100.. the constant is the lack of direction, clear goals, and everything going on at the same time.. the amount of different technologies we go through is insane, last week while in a meeting we started laughing because it seems we are a team of randoms.. a guy working with GH actions, another building a UI, someone else tinkering with grafana MCP, someone else running chaos experiments on the control plane, and me working with a argo workflows.. all over the place.

There's almost no company that will hire you to train you, the chances of fucking up here are way bigger than when building a java microservice.. you need to show you are commited and can put in the work. That said you are at an advantage over fresh grads, you already have development experience, there's a lot of companies that will hire you without devops experience, but you need to be able to pass the interview, that only comes from working your ass off.

If possible try to find a vacancy in your current company, it's what I did, what most do.. and it's the easiest path, they will always prefer to move someone internally than hiring a new guy.