The DevSecOps Engineer trek
Bake security into every stage of the software delivery lifecycle. SAST, DAST, secrets management, container hardening, supply chain security, and compliance-as-code.
DevOps & security foundations
You need DevOps fundamentals before you can secure them. CI/CD pipelines, containers, and IaC — and the threat model for each.
Secrets management
No plaintext secrets anywhere — ever. Vault, cloud secret managers, OIDC for secretless CI, and auditing secret access.
SAST & code security scanning
Static analysis in CI: find vulnerabilities before code reaches production.
Dependency & supply chain security
Software supply chain attacks are the fastest-growing threat vector. SBOM, dependency scanning, and policy enforcement.
Container & runtime security
Securing container images, the container runtime, and Kubernetes workloads from build to runtime.
DAST & penetration testing in CI
Dynamic analysis: test running applications for vulnerabilities, automated and manual.
Infrastructure security & IaC scanning
Securing Terraform, CloudFormation, and the cloud environment they create — before anything reaches production.
Security monitoring & incident response
Detecting attacks in production, building alerting pipelines, and the incident response playbook for a DevSecOps team.
Compliance as code
SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and GDPR — and how to automate evidence collection instead of doing it manually before every audit.
Security champions & culture
Security doesn't scale if only the security team does it. Building security champions, secure coding training, and the feedback loops that make every engineer a security asset.
Zero trust architecture
Moving beyond perimeter security: identity-aware access, mTLS everywhere, and the zero trust principles that protect cloud-native systems.
Security automation & toolchain
Consolidate your toolchain, automate security gates, and build the feedback loops that make security a speed enabler — not a bottleneck.
Capstone — secure a production pipeline end-to-end
Apply every layer: secure code, secured pipeline, secured container, secured infrastructure, compliance evidence, and incident response playbook.
Trek complete. What's next?
You've walked the full roadmap. Now ship the capstone, write about it, and share the path with the next engineer who needs it.