DevSecOps

DevSecOps professionals continuously incorporate cybersecurity throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and CI/CD pipeline.

Role overview

DevSecOps (Development, Security, and Operations) professionals use a combination of programming knowledge, threat management, and communication skills to automate and integrate cybersecurity at every stage of the SDLC lifecycle.

DevSecOps Professionals
may also be referred to as:
API Security Engineer
Cloud DevSecOps Engineer
Development Security Operations Engineer
Devops And Automation Security Engineer
DevSecOps Analyst
DevSecOps And Site Reliability Engineer
DevSecOps Architect
DevSecOps Automation Engineer
DevSecOps CI/CD Engineer
DevSecOps Container Engineer
DevSecOps Engineer
DevSecOps Platform Engineer
DevSecOps Site Reliability Engineer
DevSecOps Testing Engineer
IT Security Devsecops Intern

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Average Salary

Based upon experience, salary for this role ranges from:
$168,300
National Average
$190,000
$211,700
* based upon those with two plus years of cybersecurity experience

Responsibilities

• Working alongside DevOps Engineers to ensure that security vulnerabilities are addressed and fixed during development.
• Defining, implementing, and operating a platform support model that leverages DevSecOps principles.
• Attacking software to find vulnerabilities, as opposed to running scans once it has been created.
• Monitoring and managing deployment and support and serving as an escalation point for cybersecurity incidents.
• Enforcing processes and tools that ensure compliance with the relevant data privacy and protection regulations.
• Serving as a point of contact for product teams as it relates to automation, CI/CD, and DevSecOps.
• Understanding and assessing existing processes to identify how to improve and streamline team effectiveness.
• Communicating threat knowledge with the entire cybersecurity team.

Tools & Environment

DevSecOps teams often build custom tools to include security in DevOps. They need to use developer tools such as GitHub, dependency management, ad CI/CD, as well as programming tools, network protocols, containers and orchestration, threat intelligence tools, and configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.

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