Senior Security Engineer, Cloud Security Platforms Lead

Elsevier; New Jersey; On-site; USD 93,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build, and operate security tooling at scale within its global Security Engineering team. You will own architecture decisions for cloud-native security platforms across AWS multi-account environments and guide engineers through design reviews and secure coding practices.

The role emphasizes leadership, IaC standards, CI/CD, and collaboration with Incident Response, Threat Engineering, and GRC to align security with business goals.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in security engineering or a related field, designing and operating cloud-native security platforms at production scale.
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices, with experience setting standards and patterns for a team.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions) for reliability and security.
• Broad, hands-on experience across security tool categories: SIEM, EDR, DLP, PAM, WAF, SOAR, and vulnerability management.
• Proven track record mentoring engineers and leading technical design decisions within a team.
• Advanced scripting and software development skills (e.g. Python), including experience building and operating production services (APIs, cronjobs) on Kubernetes/EKS.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Spec-driven development) and sound judgment on where they add the most value.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of security platforms and services.
• Own and evolve Infrastructure as Code standards (Terraform) and CI/CD practices (GitHub Actions).
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers.
• Drive integration, tuning, and lifecycle management of core security tooling.
• Partner with Incident Response, Threat Engineering, and GRC to translate threats and compliance into engineering roadmaps.
• Champion adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve velocity, code quality, and test coverage.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for security tooling incidents and drive resilience improvements.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

AWS multi-account

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Kubernetes / EKS

AI-assisted tooling

Team leadership

Tools

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build, and operate security tooling at scale within its global Security Engineering team. You will own architecture decisions for cloud-native security platforms across AWS multi-account environments and guide engineers through design reviews and secure coding practices.

The role emphasizes leadership, IaC standards, CI/CD, and collaboration with Incident Response, Threat Engineering, and GRC to align security with business goals.