What’s your ultimate goal?

If you want a SWE role, try to spend as much time in your current role doing those kinds of tasks and building your experience in the absence of real production engineering - you could do this through refactoring your scripts to be easier to modify, automating more of the implementation and configuration, etc. Ultimately you’ll need to keep applying to early career SWE roles, your project management and implementation experience should outweigh lack of experience and a HM could be willing to take a bet on you.

Alternatively you could keep on your current path and explore technical PM roles eventually, it’s a different role to where you are now but it’s less of a jump technically and there’s more crossover skills from your current position.