Incident response analyst looking to move to security engineer

Currently working in consulting as incident response analyst and am looking to make the next leap in my career. I want to move over to security engineering and would like to get some advice on how I should go about it. Recommendations on languages/technologies to learn, projects I can look into building, and any general advice on how to move into the field would be greatly appreciated.

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