DevSecOps Engineer Skills Matrix — £5.00
The complete DevSecOps career roadmap in one spreadsheet. Every skill, tool, certification, and project mapped across 5 phases with timelines, costs, and free resources.
Covers: CI/CD pipeline design (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), SAST (Semgrep, SonarQube), DAST (OWASP ZAP), SCA (Dependency-Check, Snyk), secrets detection (GitLeaks, TruffleHog), container security (Docker, Trivy, Falco), IaC scanning (tfsec, Checkov), Kubernetes basics, threat modelling (STRIDE), Python scripting, and Terraform.
Certification path: Security+ → Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP) or Practical DevSecOps certifications → AWS/Azure security specialisations. Timeline: 12–14 months. Total cost: £350–£1,000. Every scanning tool is free and open source.
Includes salary trajectory from £55K entry to £150K+ senior, unique "Tool" category mapping showing exactly when to learn each scanner, and job hunt strategy targeting engineering-forward companies and cloud-native teams.
The role that sits between developers, security, and operations. The highest demand and the least competition.
Pairs with the DevSecOps Engineer Blueprint video on YouTube (free) and the DevSecOps Home Lab Build Guide.
DevSecOps Engineer Skills Matrix — £5.00
The complete DevSecOps career roadmap in one spreadsheet. Every skill, tool, certification, and project mapped across 5 phases with timelines, costs, and free resources.
Covers: CI/CD pipeline design (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), SAST (Semgrep, SonarQube), DAST (OWASP ZAP), SCA (Dependency-Check, Snyk), secrets detection (GitLeaks, TruffleHog), container security (Docker, Trivy, Falco), IaC scanning (tfsec, Checkov), Kubernetes basics, threat modelling (STRIDE), Python scripting, and Terraform.
Certification path: Security+ → Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP) or Practical DevSecOps certifications → AWS/Azure security specialisations. Timeline: 12–14 months. Total cost: £350–£1,000. Every scanning tool is free and open source.
Includes salary trajectory from £55K entry to £150K+ senior, unique "Tool" category mapping showing exactly when to learn each scanner, and job hunt strategy targeting engineering-forward companies and cloud-native teams.
The role that sits between developers, security, and operations. The highest demand and the least competition.
Pairs with the DevSecOps Engineer Blueprint video on YouTube (free) and the DevSecOps Home Lab Build Guide.