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DevSecOps Manager Training Course

Lead secure delivery with confidence — strategy and roadmaps, governance and compliance, security KPIs, team development, and incident leadership for DevSecOps at scale.

72
Training hours
10
Leadership modules
5+
Compliance frameworks
4.8/5
Average rating

About This Course

The DevSecOps Manager Training Course prepares leaders to own secure software delivery as a business capability. It covers the full management surface: strategy and roadmaps, culture and team enablement, governance and compliance, pipeline and automation oversight, KPIs and executive reporting, and incident leadership.

Where engineer-track courses teach you to build the controls, this course teaches you to decide, fund, govern, and scale them — selecting toolchains, enforcing policy across teams, measuring maturity, and reporting risk in language executives act on.

Why This Course Matters

DevSecOps transformations fail more often from weak governance and culture than from missing tools. Managers who can align security with business goals, build shared accountability, and prove progress with metrics are the difference between a pilot that stalls and an organization that ships securely by default.

OUTCOMES / VERIFIED

What You Walk Away With

  • Develop and execute a DevSecOps strategy aligned with business goals
  • Establish security culture, Security Champions, and cross-team collaboration
  • Manage automated security testing programs from a leadership perspective
  • Implement compliance-as-code and automated audit reporting
  • Define security metrics, KPIs, and executive dashboards
  • Build and develop high-performing DevSecOps teams
  • Lead incident management and post-incident improvement

MODULES / SEQUENCED

Training Agenda

  • The DevSecOps manager role and required skills
  • Engineer vs manager — key role differences
  • Why security integration at management level matters

  • Promoting security culture across the organization
  • Leadership strategies for mindset transformation
  • Security Champion programs that work

  • Building a DevSecOps roadmap aligned with business goals
  • Risk management within DevSecOps frameworks
  • Budgeting, resourcing, and investment decisions

  • CI/CD security from a management perspective
  • Overseeing SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA programs
  • Security tool and platform selection

  • NIST, GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, CIS benchmarks
  • Compliance-as-code and automated reporting
  • Governance frameworks and policy enforcement

  • Meaningful security metrics and dashboards
  • Reporting to stakeholders and senior management
  • Measuring DevSecOps maturity and improvement

  • Building and managing the DevSecOps team
  • Hiring, training, and developing security talent
  • Performance management and continuous learning

  • Incident response plans and escalation
  • Communication during security incidents
  • SOAR automation and post-incident reviews

  • Cloud security initiatives across AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Container and Kubernetes oversight
  • IAM and secrets management strategy

  • Zero-trust principles and architecture
  • Threat intelligence and vulnerability programs

LAB-ENV / ACTIVE

Hands-on Labs and Projects

  • LAB-01 Build a 12-month DevSecOps strategy and roadmap for a case-study organization
  • LAB-02 Map delivery controls to a compliance framework and define audit evidence
  • LAB-03 Design a KPI dashboard with MTTR, closure rate, and policy compliance metrics
  • LAB-04 Lead a simulated security incident with stakeholder communication and post-mortem

TOOL-GRID

Tools and Technologies Covered

  • DevSecOps toolchain evaluation frameworks
  • Security dashboards and analytics
  • Compliance-as-code patterns
  • SOAR concepts
  • AWS / Azure / GCP governance

TARGET / OPERATORS

Who This Is For

  • DevOps managers and engineering leads
  • Security program managers
  • Cloud transformation leaders
  • Product managers overseeing DevSecOps
  • Architects moving into leadership roles

PRE-FLIGHT / CHECK

Prerequisites

  • Experience leading or coordinating technical teams
  • Familiarity with DevOps delivery practices
  • Exposure to compliance or audit processes is helpful

FAQ / DECRYPTED

Frequently Asked Questions

Strategic with technical grounding. You won't write pipeline code, but you will understand the toolchain deeply enough to make credible decisions about strategy, tooling, KPIs, and governance.

Anyone who owns secure delivery outcomes through people and process — DevOps managers, engineering leads, security program managers, and transformation owners.

The Certified DevSecOps Manager credential, with case-study work and assessments built into the course.

The course covers NIST, GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and CIS benchmarks, and teaches a compliance-as-code approach you can map to any regulatory regime.

CROSS-LINKS

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INITIATE / CONTACT

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