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Which roles ask for DevSecOps at tech companies · 54 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

Updated

54 roles counted that list DevSecOps, one per company, title and level; 86 postings in the window.

In short

DevSecOps: listed in 54 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 29 and preferred in 25. The largest group is security engineer roles: 21 of 54 (39%).

Required
29 of 54 (54%)
Of the roles that list DevSecOps
Preferred
25 of 54 (46%)
Of the roles that list DevSecOps
Largest group
21 of 54 (39%)
Security engineer

Roles that ask for DevSecOps

Roles listing DevSecOps, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Security engineer2121 of 126 (17%)
DevOps engineer99 of 58 (16%)
Software engineer88 of 719 (1%)
Site reliability engineer44 of 70 (6%)
Software architect44 of 32
Forward deployed engineer22 of 63 (3%)
Machine learning engineer22 of 79 (3%)
Platform engineer22 of 57 (4%)
Data engineer11 of 99 (1%)
QA engineer11 of 63 (2%)

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 54 DevSecOps roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Infrastructure as Code
32 of 54 (59%)
Python
31 of 54 (57%)
AWS
29 of 54 (54%)
Terraform
29 of 54 (54%)
CI/CD
27 of 54 (50%)
Kubernetes
21 of 54 (39%)
Docker
20 of 54 (37%)
Cybersecurity
18 of 54 (33%)
Identity and Access Management
18 of 54 (33%)
Scripting
17 of 54 (31%)
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
CI/CD
12 of 54 (22%)
AWS Certification
9 of 54 (17%)
AWS
8 of 54 (15%)
Incident Response
8 of 54 (15%)
Identity and Access Management
7 of 54 (13%)
Kubernetes
7 of 54 (13%)
Application Security
6 of 54 (11%)
FedRAMP
6 of 54 (11%)
NIST
6 of 54 (11%)
AI
5 of 54 (9%)

Experience

Of the 31 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
31 of 31
2+ years
31 of 31
3+ years
30 of 31
5+ years
24 of 31
8+ years
6 of 31
10+ years
1 of 31

Degree

Of the 35 roles we could read for it

Required
4 of 35
Required, or experience instead
10 of 35
Preferred
3 of 35
Not mentioned
18 of 35

Pay and remote work

Of the 54 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
29 of 54 (54%)
Remote roles
43 of 54 (80%)

How we count: 54 roles from 42 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology