Security Engineer III

Are you passionate about building and scaling cloud security tooling using AWS, Terraform, and modern CI/CD practices?

Can you partner with engineering teams to design, deploy, and operate security solutions that protect large‑scale cloud platforms?

About our Team You’ll be joining the Security Engineering team within Elsevier’s Information Security & Data Protection department. Our team is responsible for designing, implementing, configuring, and maintaining security tools used across Elsevier Technology. You will collaborate with colleagues from Incident Response, Threat Engineering, Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC), and work closely with business users to ensure our security tools are effectively adopted throughout our cloud infrastructure.

About the Role We are seeking candidates with a passion for cybersecurity. You should have a solid understanding of security tools, cloud technologies, and Dev Ops methodologies. We value practical experience applying IT security principles across areas such as Network Security, Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, Risk Management, and Incident Response.

Responsibilities Collaborate within the security engineering team to design and implement security tooling.

Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Create and support CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions to enable reliable, automated deployments

Collaborate with engineering teams on architecture, reliability, and continuous improvement

Partner with software development teams to ensure effective adoption of security tools.

Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve system reliability and visibility

Support resilience through capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and runbooks

Troubleshoot issues efficiently and communicate outcomes clearly.

Deliver production-ready systems on time and within budget.

Requirements We recognize that no one will meet every requirement. If you are excited about this role and have relevant experience, we encourage you to apply.

Demonstrated knowledge of IT security tools and cloud computing, including security services in AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), or Aliyun.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git Hub Actions).Familiarity with AI tools (such as Git Hub Copilot or ChatGPT Enterprise) to enhance security outcomes.

Ability to analyze and monitor security systems using tools such as New Relic or Cloud Watch.

Proficiency in scripting and/or application development (e.g., Python, Shell scripting).Experience working with security tools such as SIEM, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), Firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), or code analysis tools.

Experience with cloud environments (AWS or others), virtualization, containerization, or infrastructure as code.

Exposure to Agile and/or Dev Ops frameworks.

Interest in emerging industry standards for security in technology environments.

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