Hope for a job in this market

It took me all of 2024 to get 8 interviews and no job offers. I’ve since paid someone to help me with my resume and are working with a mentor to build portfolio projects on my GitHub. I’ve watched countless videos on YouTube about preparing for a devops job and I think I’m in a pretty good spot. I’ve held devops positions for 7 years with my last one being a lead. Unfortunately this was all in government contracting and my experience is mostly in building and maintaining pipelines. I’m learning terraform and the kubernetes ecosystem but I’m losing hope. I’m in New York and willing to go into the office for work. Is it really that bad? I have AWS solutions architect associate, CCNA, Linux+ and a bunch of other Comptia certs. I’m working on getting terraform and CKA along with building iac projects on GitHub. What else can I do? What else should I do? It’s my goal to get a job by the end of the year with the hope that in 3 years I can transition to a remote position.