Senior Product Security Engineer II

Elsevier Inc.; Oxford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier Inc. is seeking an experienced security professional to advance our application security program across multiple technology stacks. You will influence secure software delivery, threat modelling, and automated controls with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities include designing secure-by-default patterns, developing reusable templates, and enabling audit evidence generation. A strong background in security automation and industry standards is required.

Qualifications

• Experience in application security, software engineering, or product security.
• Knowledge of application security principles, common vulnerabilities, and secure coding practices across multiple technology stacks.
• 5+ years of application security, software engineering, or product security experience.
• 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

• 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

Secure coding practices

Communication

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Education

BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience

Job description

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
• Experience in application security, software engineering, or product security
  Knowledge of application security principles, common vulnerabilities, and secure coding practices across multiple technology stacks
  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

Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization.
We offer an appealing working prospect for our people.
With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term