Should one switch from incident response role to security automation engineer role

Hi people,

I work as a SOC analyst and my primary job function has been triaging alerts, incident response and I spend small amounts of time on purple teaming, threat hunting and developing correlation rules.

I am good at all of the above and I enjoying doing all of it EXCEPT triaging alerts. It takes a lot of my time but doesn't teach me anything new and isn't intellectually challenging. I brought this up to the leadership recently and they …

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