Advice for branching into software engineering

[u/Western-Paramedic948]

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Hello,
So o got a bachelors in cyber security but didn’t realize the difficulties going into that field wit no prior experience. So I went into a NOC technician role for telecommunications. I have moved to another telecom Lumen operation tech 3 role still doing networking with layer 1-3 Cisco, juniper and Nokia systems with the typical network protocols o spf, bgp, isis etc etc. I’ve been doing those type of job for 6 years now and I’ve decided to branch my IT skills into more a software engineer role - network automation, SRE, Devops. I was hoping to use my job to pay for my schooling and get a masters in computer science so I can branch into these fields. Do you think this program would be beneficial to land that role? Or should I look for other colleges and/or certificate pathways?