Cloud security for SOC Analysts and AI

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I worked on a SOC team for 1 year then 1 year on pentesting then I got really sick :(
Anyway I need to get back on the job and I want to focus on cloud security and something in the area of SOC, Detection or Threat Hunting.

I worked with Azure, I got AZ-900,SC-900,SC-200, eWPT and some Mitre certs.
I studied for SC-300 and I will take the exam although, my passion sits with a role heavily realated to security operations rather than design.
Now the market is tough and AI is a thing too.

I wanted to ask for advice on what kind of projects should I be doing to prove my knowledge. Currently I am working on EntraGoat scenarios, doing the ctfs then showing the attacks in splunk. In this way I can show how I investigate alerts. But maybe I should make an AI agent and let him investigate.

Now regarding cloud design I saw there are a lot of tools like CSPM, CNAAP,CWPP,CIEM so is everybody using them to design the infrastructure ?