Senior AppSec Engineer - Secure CI/CD

RELX; Oxford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to strengthen secure software delivery across engineering teams by embedding security practices, tools, and automation into development workflows. You will work across teams to reduce risk, enable secure-by-default delivery at scale, and guide triage, threat modelling, and reusable templates.

The role offers collaboration with platform, architecture, and security teams, and opportunities to influence standards and

Qualifications

• Experience in application security, software engineering, or product security.
• Knowledge of security principles, common vulnerabilities, and secure coding.
• 5+ years of application security, software engineering, or product security experience.
• BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required.
• Understanding of CI/CD security, including pipeline controls, identity and access management, and secrets handling.
• Experience integrating automated security tooling into software delivery workflows.
• Experience developing reusable templates, standards, and reference implementations.
• Familiarity with security automation, compliance support, and audit evidence generation.
• Awareness of industry security standards and best practices.
• Strong collaboration, communication, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with development teams to improve secure software delivery practices across applications and CI/CD pipelines
• Support triage and remediation of application security findings through practical guidance and secure refactoring recommendations
• Facilitate threat modelling activities and translate outcomes into actionable improvements and risk reduction measures
• Design and maintain secure-by-default delivery patterns, reusable templates, and reference implementations
• Support adoption of centrally managed tooling and automated security controls
• Develop integrations and automation to enable security validation, audit evidence generation, and operational metrics
• Collaborate with platform, architecture, and security teams to improve processes, tooling, and delivery capabilities
• Communicate security guidance, standards, and best practices to stakeholders

Skills

Application security

CI/CD security

Automation tooling

Cross-functional collaboration

Security standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Computer Science

Job description

Elsevier in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to strengthen secure software delivery across engineering teams by embedding security practices, tools, and automation into development workflows. You will work across teams to reduce risk, enable secure-by-default delivery at scale, and guide triage, threat modelling, and reusable templates.

The role offers collaboration with platform, architecture, and security teams, and opportunities to influence standards and