Senior SecOps Engineer — Cloud Security & Tooling Lead

Elsevier; City Of London; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build, and operate security tooling at scale. You’ll own architecture for security platforms, guide junior engineers through reviews, and act as a trusted technical voice with Incident Response, Threat Engineering, and GRC.

You will shape secure-by-design practices, drive security tooling lifecycle, and partner across teams to translate threats into engineering roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in security engineering or a related field.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native security platforms at production scale.
• Ownership of security architecture in AWS (or OCI/Aliyun).
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Broad experience across security tool categories: SIEM, EDR, DLP, PAM, WAF, SOAR, and vulnerability management.
• Advanced scripting and software development skills (Python) with production services on Kubernetes/EKS.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and sound judgment on value add.
• Experience with Agile and/or DevOps frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Leading the design, architecture, and delivery of security platforms and services.
• Owning and evolve IaC standards (Terraform) and CI/CD practices (GitHub Actions).
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, including design/code reviews.
• Driving integration, tuning, and lifecycle management of core security tooling.
• Partnering with Incident Response, Threat Engineering, and GRC to translate threats into engineering solutions.
• Championing AI-assisted engineering practices to improve velocity and test coverage.
• Leading troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for security tooling incidents and resilience planning.
• Representing SENG in architecture reviews and cross-functional forums for secure-by-design.
• Delivering production-ready systems on time and within budget.

Skills

Security engineering

Python

Cloud security

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes / EKS

SIEM

EDR

DLP

PAM

WAF

SOAR

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build, and operate security tooling at scale. You’ll own architecture for security platforms, guide junior engineers through reviews, and act as a trusted technical voice with Incident Response, Threat Engineering, and GRC.

You will shape secure-by-design practices, drive security tooling lifecycle, and partner across teams to translate threats into engineering roadmaps.