Are there any security engineers here that prefer being an analyst?

Has anyone here made the switch back down to analyst? How did you find the change?

As a sec engineer, I’m finding the most enjoyable aspects of my job are responding to SIEM/EDR alerts and remediating vulnerabilities.

New tech implementations as an engineer can be interesting but the sheer amount of Excel sheets that I stare at all day, the processes and procedures and other compliance stuff is so dry. I’ve grown really tired of the engineering side and just …

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