Location: Hyderabad (preferred, hybrid) — remote considered for exceptional candidates

About the role

Practical DevSecOps is the training partner behind 10 hands-on certifications — CDP, CDE, CCSE, CCNSE, CAISP, CMCPSE, CTMP, CASP, CSSE and CSC — used by 12,500+ security professionals and teams at IBM, Accenture, PwC, Booz Allen Hamilton, Standard Chartered and PayPal. Our courses are browser-based labs, not slideware, and our exams are 6 hour hands-on challenges with written reports.

We are hiring a Course Creator to design and build that content. This is a builder's role: you will own courses end to end — curriculum, labs, lab infrastructure, video lessons, exam challenges and grading rubrics — for topics at the front edge of DevSecOps, AI security and cloud-native security.

If you have ever finished a security course and thought "I could have taught this better, and with real labs," this is that job.

What you will do

Build courses

- Own new and existing courses end to end: learning outcomes, module structure, lesson scripting, hands-on labs and assessments.
- Design lab exercises that force learners to do the work — build the pipeline, break the model, harden the cluster — not watch someone else do it.
- Record and script video lessons, write technical guides, checklists and reference material.
- Design exam challenges and the grading rubrics that go with them, and support exam evaluation.

Research and stay ahead

- Research emerging technologies and turn them into teachable lab scenarios — AI/LLM security, MCP servers and agentic AI, supply chain security, Kubernetes, zero trust.
- Attack and defend AI models, inference endpoints and MCP servers; translate those findings into lessons.
- Keep the existing catalogue current as tools, CVEs and frameworks move (OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, SLSA, CIS benchmarks, ASVS).

Build the platform around the content

- Build and maintain the lab infrastructure so learners can focus on the skill, not the setup.




- Build internal tooling that shortens the time from idea to shipped lesson.
- Look for ways to scale and streamline how content gets produced and reviewed.

Support learners

- Be a visible, responsive presence in support forums and the Mattermost community.
- Turn recurring learner questions into better content.

What we are looking for

Must have

- 5+ years in application security, product security or DevSecOps roles.
- Robust hands-on depth in at least two of: CI/CD security (SCA, SAST, DAST, secrets), container and Kubernetes security, IaC/CaC (Terraform, Ansible, Inspec), AI/LLM security, API security, threat modeling, software supply chain security.
- Working fluency with Docker, Git, and at least one CI system (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI).
- Scripting and automation in Python, Bash or Go — enough to build labs, not just run tools.
- Genuinely good technical writing. You can explain a hard concept to a mid-level engineer in plain English and make them want to try it.
- Ability to work independently in a distributed team with minimal supervision.

Nice to have

- Prior experience creating training content, courseware, workshops or conference trainings.
- A public body of work: blog, CTF challenges, open-source tooling, conference talks (Black Hat, OWASP AppSec, BSides, DevSecCon), CVEs.
- Experience with LLM tooling and frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, vector stores, agent frameworks) from a security perspective.
- Video production or screencast experience.

What we are not looking for

- Someone who has only run scanners and triaged tickets.
- Someone who needs a full spec before starting.

Perks

- Apple/Mac stack (MBP, Keynote).
- Highly competitive compensation.
- Flexible work schedule; hybrid from our Hyderabad office, or fully remote for the right person.
- Free access to every Practical DevSecOps certification, plus a budget for conferences and training.
- Time explicitly allocated for research — staying current is the job, not something you do after hours.
- Your work is seen and used by thousands of security professionals worldwide.

📌 Senior Security Engineer — Course Creator (Content Engineering) (Hyderabad)
🏢 Practical DevSecOps
📍 Hyderabad