🚀 Complete AI-Enabled DevSecOps Learning Roadmap for 2026 | Skills Required to Become a Modern DevSecOps Engineer

AI-Enabled DevOps Engineer Roadmap for 2026

The future belongs to AI-Enabled DevOps Engineers, not AI-only Engineers. Strong DevOps fundamentals combined with AI productivity skills will create the highest demand in the job market.

AI is not a replacement for DevOps skills. AI is a productivity accelerator. The best DevOps Engineers of the future will combine strong DevOps fundamentals with AI-assisted problem solving, automation and operational excellence.

Top AI and DevOps skills

1. Linux knowledge and scripting - basic troubleshooting and scripting and looking at the logs
2. Experience in Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos or any source code management tools.
3. Experience in CI tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CICD, Azure DevOps
4. Experience in Code quality tool/security scanning tools - SonarQube, AquaSec Trivy, Checkov
5. Experience in Infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, AWS cloud formation
6. Experience in Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
7. Experience in scripting languages such as YAML, groovy, Ruby, Python and Shell
8. Experience in containers such as Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
9. Experience in Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana
10. Ability to troubleshoot in case builds, deployments failure.
11. Any cloud knowledge and experience - AWS, Azure and Google cloud
12. AI-assisted DevOps and Cloud Engineering
13. AI-assisted Troubleshooting and RCA
14. AI-assisted Infrastructure Automation
15. AI-assisted DevSecOps
16. AI-assisted Kubernetes Operations
17. Understanding AI Agents, RAG and SRE Automation

Soft skills employers are looking:

These days employers are not only looking for strong technical skills but also looking "soft skills" which are essentials to become successful in IT. If you think if you are lagging on any of these skills, no worries. All these skills can be developed and improved over period of time by practicing.

• Open minded
• Willingness to learn new skills
• Communication
• Approachable
• "Get it done" attitude
• Being adaptable

How to Setup AquaSec Trivy Vulnerability Scanner | How to install AquaSec Trivy Scanner on Linux OS | Jenkins Pipeline For Scanning MyWebApp | DevSecOps Tutorials

 What is Trivy?

• open-source security scanner tool developed by Aqua Security. 
• Used for vulnerability scanning in such as 
• container images 
• file systems/folders 
• Git repositories
• Kubernetes clusters
• misconfiguration in files such as Terraform, K8S manifest files
• Trivy helps identify security issues and misconfigurations early in the software development lifecycle.

Pre-requisites:

• Any Linux instance is up and running, in our case we will use Jenkins Ubuntu machine

How to Install Trivy scanner on Jenkins Ubuntu EC2 instance?

Trivy scanner can be installed so many ways. Check here for more information. But we will be using APT package manager to install on Ubuntu EC2.

sudo apt-get install wget gnupg -y

wget -qO - https://aquasecurity.github.io/trivy-repo/deb/public.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/trivy.gpg > /dev/null 

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/trivy.gpg] https://aquasecurity.github.io/trivy-repo/deb generic main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trivy.list 

sudo apt-get update 

sudo apt-get install trivy -y

Check Trivy got installed

trivy --version

This confirm that Trivy got installed successfully.

Jenkins Pipeline 

pipeline {

    agent any

    tools {

        maven 'Maven3'

    }

    stages {

        stage('Checkout') {

            steps {

                git branch: 'main', credentialsId: '', url: 'https://github.com/akannan1087/myApr2026WeekendRepo'

            }

        }

        

        stage ("build") {

            steps {

                echo "doing my build.."

                sh "mvn clean install -f MyWebApp/pom.xml"

            }

        }

    stage ("code coverage") {

        steps {

         jacoco()

        }

    }

    

    stage ("code scan") {

        steps {

        withSonarQubeEnv('SonarQube') {

            sh "mvn sonar:sonar -f MyWebApp/pom.xml"

        }

     }

    }

    

    stage ("security scan") {

        steps {

         sh "trivy fs ."

        }

    }

 }

}

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AI-Enabled DevSecOps & Cloud Engineering Bootcamp | Master DevSecOps and Multi Cloud Computing Course by Coach AK | DevSecOps and Cloud Computing Online Classes | July 2026 Schedule

Live AI-Enabled DevSecOps & Cloud Engineering Bootcamp - July 2026

🚀 Supercharge your DevOps career with real-world skills!

🔥 What You’ll Learn

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✔ Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure Repos
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✔ SonarQube, Trivy, Nexus, Slack
✔ Terraform, Ansible
✔ Docker & Kubernetes 
✔ Helm, Prometheus & more!

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