Senior Product Security Engineer II - Secure Delivery

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

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.