Senior SecOps Engineer - Cloud Security & Tooling Lead

RXinsider LTD.; New Jersey; On-site; USD 93,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier’s Security Engineering team is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build, and operate security tooling at scale. You will own architecture decisions, guide junior engineers, and drive secure-by-design practices across cloud tooling and platforms.

The role emphasizes hands-on AWS, Terraform IaC, GitHub Actions, and AI-assisted engineering tools to boost velocity and reliability. Collaboration with Incident Response, Threat Engineering, and GRC is essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native security platforms at scale.
• Proven ownership of security architecture in AWS with multi-account setups.
• Deep Terraform IaC experience and standardization across teams.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for reliability and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, architecture, and delivery of security platforms and services.
• Mentor engineers and review designs and code for secure practices.
• Drive integration and lifecycle management of core security tooling.
• Collaborate with Incident Response, Threat Engineering, and GRC on roadmaps.

Skills

Cloud security engineering

AWS mult i-account

Terraform IaC

GitHub Actions CI/CD

Security tooling

Python

Kubernetes/EKS

Threat modeling

AGILE/DevOps

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Elsevier’s Security Engineering team is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build, and operate security tooling at scale. You will own architecture decisions, guide junior engineers, and drive secure-by-design practices across cloud tooling and platforms.

The role emphasizes hands-on AWS, Terraform IaC, GitHub Actions, and AI-assisted engineering tools to boost velocity and reliability. Collaboration with Incident Response, Threat Engineering, and GRC is essential.