Career Paths

Choose a track, not just a course.

VEXA Academy career tracks are curated combinations of courses that take you from your current level to a clear job role: Web Pentester, Cloud Security Engineer, Red Teamer, or AI Security Engineer.

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How to use these tracks

  • 1️⃣ Find the role that matches your long-term goal.
  • 2️⃣ Follow the suggested sequence of courses.
  • 3️⃣ Build labs, reports, and projects as you progress.
  • 4️⃣ Use your work as portfolio items for interviews.

VEXA Career Tracks

Each track combines multiple VEXA Academy programmes into a guided path. You can enrol course by course or discuss a full track plan with us.

Track 1 · Web & AppSec

Web Pentester / Application Security Engineer

Goal: Become a job-ready Web Application Pentester capable of testing modern web and API applications.

Courses in this track:

  • Cybersecurity Fundamentals (Beginner)
  • Web Application Penetration Testing (Professional)
  • Bug Bounty & Responsible Disclosure
  • AI Security & Prompt Injection (optional modern add-on)

Best for: BCA/MCA students, freshers, developers moving into AppSec, bug bounty beginners.

Key skills: OWASP Top 10, XSS, SQLi, CSRF, IDOR, API testing, recon, reporting, bug bounty methodology.

Outcome: Ready for Junior Pentester / AppSec roles and bug bounty programs.

View main course Bug bounty add-on
Track 2 · Cloud & DevSecOps

Cloud & Kubernetes Security Engineer

Goal: Secure AWS environments and Kubernetes clusters, with a strong understanding of misconfigurations and attack paths.

Courses in this track:

  • Cybersecurity Fundamentals (or equivalent basics)
  • Cloud & Kubernetes Security
  • Web Application Penetration Testing (optional, for API/backend context)

Best for: Cloud engineers, DevOps, security analysts moving into cloud security.

Key skills: IAM, S3/EC2 security, IAM privilege escalation, Kubernetes pod escape concepts, secrets management, IaC awareness.

Outcome: Ready for Cloud Security / DevSecOps style roles with practical misconfiguration awareness.

View cloud security course
Track 3 · Offensive Operations

Red Team & Adversary Simulation

Goal: Understand and simulate realistic attack chains: initial access, privilege escalation, lateral movement and reporting.

Courses in this track:

  • Web Application Penetration Testing (recommended foundation)
  • Red Team & Adversary Simulation
  • Cloud & Kubernetes Security (optional but strong add-on)

Best for: SOC analysts, security engineers, pentesters, blue teamers wanting an offensive mindset.

Key skills: ATT&CK mapping, AD attack chains, credential abuse, lateral movement, red team report storytelling.

Outcome: Strong foundation to move from defensive roles into red team / offensive security positions.

View red team course
Track 4 · AI & LLM Security

AI Security & LLM Testing

Goal: Specialise in prompt injection, RAG attacks, jailbreaks and secure design for AI/LLM-based applications.

Courses in this track:

  • AI Security & Prompt Injection
  • Cybersecurity Fundamentals (optional but recommended)
  • Web Application Pentest basics (optional for API + backend context)

Best for: AI/ML engineers, developers building AI features, security testers exploring AI risks.

Key skills: Prompt injection, jailbreak analysis, RAG exploitation concepts, secure AI patterns.

Outcome: Profile suitable for AI security / LLM red team style roles as the field grows.

View AI security course