IT Mgr Transition to Network Engineer ?

Currently I'm an IT manager for small business. (1 man shop, yours truly and an MSP doing L1 help desk stuff) we have 700+ employees. I have been in the IT world as a SysAdmin and IT manager for the last 8 years, here over a year. My last employer was 10x the size and had much more networking, which I really enjoy and find fascinating. We had UCS's, Data Center, lots of route/switch etc... Here it's so simple its just plain boring...while the company is growing its not at a rate that will change my career path and there are very limited technical opportunities here. I hold a current CISSP and CCNA R&S cert, make decent money, $95k/yr, no bonus, no 401k in a moderate cost of living are - not complaining just making a note :)

I'm a bit burnt on the one man show thing....

Does $95k/yr (no bonus/401k) seem reasonable in my current role?

Is it realistic for me to expect to be able to transition into a network/systems engineer/consulting type role (with a VAR\big4 etc) making similar $ (or more) money if I pick up CCNP ?

Any other thoughts or recommendations ?

Has anyone out there done this - moved from management to technical ?

Thank You!