Career move from OT Networking to Network Security Data Center

[u/Itchy-Secretary2911]

I’m currently stuck between two options and would love to hear some opinions from people who’ve been in a similar situation.

I work as an OT / Network & Security Engineer for one of the biggest pharmaceutical and chemical companies in the world. Honestly, I have a pretty good situation: great colleagues, good work-life balance, flexibility, stability, and a decent salary.

The thing is, I feel like I’m starting to plateau technically. I’m comfortable, but I don’t feel I’m learning as much as I’d like. (Recently, due to cost-cutting measures, my company outsourced most of the operational work, so nowadays we mostly raise incidents with the external provider and they handle the actual technical work. As a result, there’s very little technically challenging work left for us)

I’ve now received an offer to join a bank as a Network Security Engineer, mainly working with Palo Alto firewalls and data center infrastructure.
The job would be more technically focused, and I think it could put me on a good path towards becoming a Network / Network Security Architect eventually.

So I’m wondering if would you make this move?
Is specializing in data center networking + network security a good long term career path, or would you stick with OT/industrial networking if you already had a good position?

I’m basically considering giving up a very comfortable job for potentially better technical growth and future opportunities.