Switch

Hello everyone, I'm a Backend Engineer with \~6 YoE across three different jobs. Throughout my working years so far, I have had some small exposure to cloud/infra management and have found that it's a lot more enjoyable to me than typical backend work. I'm currently looking to switch jobs and I'm wondering if a transition into SRE/DevOps is worth it. I'm mostly looking for your opinion on these things: 1. Would a transition like this hurt me in the short term in terms of salary? 2. In the long term, would you say either of those tracks is "better" or are they more or less comparable? "better" here could mean better in terms of pay, job security, or growth potential. I know that lots of the skills I already have as a backend engineer would be transferrable but I'm trying to decide whether that's a good career move before I actually commit to studying and getting certs and so on to be able to properly make the switch. Any opinions welcome. Thanks.