TechWaymark / Career Atlas

Find your way through tech.

Understand the work. Explore the connections. Make your next move with a clearer view.

Exploring from education · roles are possibilities to investigate, not automatic outcomes.

Find a direction.
See what connects.

74 roles · 88 current certification records
Explore the work behind the titles.

Follow the connections. Choose an area to look closer.

Support, systems and the networks beneath them

Software, cloud platforms and data

Different kinds of security work

Identity, trust, risk and architecture

Each line is a mapped connection. Hover or focus an area to follow its links.

Areas overlap. Their position shows a way to explore related work, not a ranking or a required career ladder.

Role

The practitioner view

Triaging alerts on rotation, writing tickets, chasing false positives.

Working life and common misconceptions

Practitioner judgements. Actual responsibilities and working conditions vary by employer.

Easiest cyber entry. Saturated by bootcamps, but real shifts thin the field fast.

Selected for their relevance to this work. These connections do not make a certification a job requirement.

Supporting foundations

The usual first security cert. Often listed on analyst adverts as a baseline, and it covers the vocabulary you'll hear on shift.

Specialist focus

Directly maps to Microsoft Sentinel and Defender, which many UK SOCs run. Practical rather than theoretical.

Relevant learning

Hands-on blue team exam. Shows you can actually investigate, which is what interviewers try to test.

IT supportNetwork adminSelf-taught + Security+Help deskSysadminNetwork analyst