Cloud Security Engineer III: Build & Scale Secure AWS Infra

relx; Oxford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier’s Security Engineering team is seeking engineers to design, deploy, and operate security solutions across large-scale cloud platforms. You’ll partner with Incident Response, Threat Engineering, GRC, and software teams to ensure secure adoption.

The role emphasizes design, automation, and resilience in AWS environments, with a strong DevOps focus and modern CI/CD practices to protect cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of IT security tools and cloud computing, including security services in AWS, OCI, or Aliyun.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Familiarity with AI tools to enhance security outcomes.
• Ability to analyze and monitor security systems using tools such as NewRelic or CloudWatch.
• Proficiency in scripting and/or application development (Python, Shell).
• Experience with security tools such as SIEM, DLP, EDR, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, or code analysis tools.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS or others), virtualization, containerization, or infrastructure as code.
• Exposure to Agile/DevOps frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate within the security engineering team to design and implement security tooling.
• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Create and support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to enable reliable, automated deployments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on architecture, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with software development teams to ensure effective adoption of security tools.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve system reliability and visibility.
• Support resilience through capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and runbooks.
• Troubleshoot issues efficiently and communicate outcomes clearly.
• Deliver production-ready systems on time and within budget.

Skills

Cloud security

DevOps

Security tooling

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Security operations

Vulnerability management

Incident response

Networking security

Threat engineering

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

NewRelic

CloudWatch

Python

Shell scripting

SIEM

EDR

IDS/IPS

Job description

Elsevier’s Security Engineering team is seeking engineers to design, deploy, and operate security solutions across large-scale cloud platforms. You’ll partner with Incident Response, Threat Engineering, GRC, and software teams to ensure secure adoption.

The role emphasizes design, automation, and resilience in AWS environments, with a strong DevOps focus and modern CI/CD practices to protect cloud infrastructure.