Top Cyber Security Jobs in Richmond, VA

Leads information security strategy and execution for the Federal Reserve System’s District IT and Corporate Services portfolio. Advises senior technology and business leaders, manages cybersecurity risk and tolerance, develops resilient security practices, and partners across a matrixed organization to deliver secure technology services. Builds high-performing, AI-savvy teams, drives change and innovation, manages stakeholders and external partners, and aligns security initiatives with business objectives and system standards.

Leads information security strategy and execution for the Federal Reserve’s Central Bank Services portfolio, including Markets, Credit Risk Management, and Reserves. Advises senior business and technology leaders, manages cybersecurity risk and resilience, partners across a matrixed organization, develops security strategies, builds AI-savvy teams, drives change and innovation, and ensures secure, reliable technology delivery aligned with business objectives and System standards.

Leads information security strategy and execution for Federal Reserve System IT Operations and Policy portfolios. Advises the System CISO and business and technology leaders, manages cybersecurity risk and resilience, develops secure technology practices, and partners across infrastructure, architecture, data, innovation, and IT business teams. Builds AI-savvy security teams, drives organizational change, strengthens governance, and ensures secure, reliable technology delivery across a geographically dispersed enterprise.

Delivers virtual and occasional onsite cloud security training covering Falcon Cloud Security, CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, containers, and incident response. Develops curricula, certification exams, and hands-on labs; maintains expertise in cloud threats and CrowdStrike products; and supports broader endpoint, identity, logging, and SIEM topics. Requires strong technical education, cloud security, communication, project management, AI technology, and occasional travel experience.

Build and refine security detections, logging, telemetry, SIEM pipelines, and incident response capabilities across cloud, corporate, and SaaS environments. Conduct threat hunting, threat modeling, alert triage, and response engineering. Develop automation and AI-assisted security tooling, maintain runbooks and documentation, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with engineering and business teams on security initiatives.

Build and operate central security systems, automation, tooling, and controls across cloud infrastructure, identity, access, products, partners, and vendors. Develop AI-assisted security workflows, lead external assessments through verified remediation, identify and validate vulnerabilities, guide engineering teams, and participate in incident response. The role requires production security engineering experience, strong programming skills, cloud security expertise, and fintech, payments, or crypto experience.

Lead end-to-end execution of a 12+ initiative product security program, managing cross-team dependencies, vendor procurement, BAU security operations, and executive reporting. Maintain roadmap and tracking in Jira/Confluence, drive procurement/POCs, produce executive-ready metrics, and establish program cadence to ensure timely remediation and predictable delivery.

Leads cybersecurity product management for cyber intelligence capabilities. Responsibilities include defining product vision and roadmaps, representing customer and security needs, prioritizing backlogs, writing requirements, guiding Agile and SAFe ceremonies, advising engineering teams, and driving risk reduction through metrics and analytics. The role requires collaboration across threat intelligence, security engineering, technical research, and product teams, with a focus on cybersecurity governance, capability maturation, incident analysis, and scalable intelligence solutions.

Leads a people-focused offensive security team conducting penetration tests across enterprise networks, applications, services, and infrastructure. Develops testing strategy, analyzes findings, guides remediation, tracks emerging attack techniques, mentors security professionals, and collaborates with developers on secure CI/CD improvements. Communicates technical risks and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.

Conduct application security assessments, threat modeling, code reviews, and manual penetration testing across web applications, APIs, cloud services, appliances, and AI-enabled features. Coordinate external penetration tests, validate vulnerabilities, track remediation, and verify fixes. Improve SAST, SCA, secrets detection, container scanning, SBOM, supply-chain, and CI/CD security workflows while advising Engineering on secure design and risk prioritization.

Lead security architecture and design reviews, define standards for protecting sensitive healthcare data, build automated defenses, improve monitoring and incident response, redirect technical strategy, translate complex security objectives into engineering requirements, and mentor engineers through rigorous code and design reviews.

Leads a multi-team organization building AI-driven cybersecurity systems for endpoint and cloud environments. Owns technical strategy, roadmap, hiring, delivery, evaluation, and safe production deployment of AI models and autonomous defense agents. Oversees systems operating under strict endpoint resource limits and at cloud scale across trillions of events. Partners with engineering, product, threat intelligence, and executives while advancing security efficacy, reliability, and responsible AI adoption.

Conduct third-party cybersecurity risk assessments, evaluate control environments against security expectations, review evidence, identify gaps, and deliver assessment reports. Partner with internal and external stakeholders to manage remediation and expectations, support assessment planning, interpret cybersecurity requirements, and improve program processes. Travel 30–40% for multi-day assessments.

Lead global security investigations and incident response, serving as incident commander for major events and guiding containment, remediation, recovery, and postmortems. Manage and develop a technical response team, establish readiness practices, improve security tooling and telemetry, and drive detection and automation enhancements. Translate incident metrics and business impact into executive and board-level reporting while developing AI-enabled investigation workflows with appropriate safeguards.

Leads vulnerability intelligence research focused on rapidly analyzing and exploiting newly disclosed or actively exploited vulnerabilities. Develops Metasploit modules and framework improvements, conducts zero-day research, publishes technical analyses, advises detection teams, supports emergent threat response, presents research publicly, and mentors other researchers. The role requires advanced exploitation, reverse engineering, operating system, networking, and exploit mitigation expertise, plus cross-functional communication during time-sensitive security events.

Designs and develops IAM and security software, automation, APIs, and microservices. Integrates security into cloud and CI/CD environments, conducts code reviews and threat modeling, monitors security events, supports incident response, and advises teams on identity architecture and best practices. Requires extensive IAM administration, programming, cloud, containerization, and secure-coding experience.

Own application security for Generative AI and emerging products by integrating secure development practices, conducting design and code reviews, threat modeling systems, assessing vendors and AI tools, triaging vulnerabilities, and building security automation. The role partners with engineering and detection teams, contributes to cloud and infrastructure security, participates in incident response and on-call rotations, and documents post-incident remediation.

Own internal offensive security assessments across applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and corporate systems. Plan and execute penetration tests, validate vulnerabilities safely, review source code, and partner with engineering teams through remediation and retesting. Build automated security testing tools and workflows, lead adoption of AI-assisted offensive security capabilities, support third-party testing, improve detection and incident response, and participate in on-call responsibilities.

Leads enterprise cybersecurity governance, risk assessments, capability maturity evaluations, continuous improvement, and risk reduction initiatives. Advises senior stakeholders on cybersecurity controls, threats, vulnerabilities, tooling, metrics, and remediation. Directs cross-functional governance programs, develops cybersecurity frameworks, communicates risk impacts, and manages cybersecurity professionals. Requires extensive cybersecurity experience, people management, multi-cloud expertise, security tooling knowledge, and familiarity with risk governance and compliance frameworks.

Partner with product and engineering teams to embed security throughout the product lifecycle. Conduct threat modeling, architecture reviews, source-code security analysis, vulnerability identification, and secure test development. Advise on authentication, compliance, and business security requirements; automate security processes; identify emerging vulnerabilities; and coordinate cross-team projects through completion.

Leads technical pre-sales architecture for complex security solutions serving public-sector and commercial customers. Translates business, security, compliance, and technical requirements into solution designs, bills of materials, statements of work, estimates, pricing, assessments, and deployment plans. Conducts discovery sessions, architecture workshops, solution reviews, and customer presentations while partnering with sales, delivery teams, and security vendors. Mentors architects and sellers, supports regional customer activity, and travels throughout the Southeast as needed.

Architect and build production AI security systems spanning endpoint sensors and cloud-scale infrastructure. Lead autonomous cyber defense capabilities, including detection, threat hunting, response, adversary simulation, secure agent execution, and model evaluation. Establish technical direction, benchmarks, and safety practices while mentoring senior engineers and researchers. Carry frontier AI research into the Falcon platform and represent the company through publications, open source, standards, and industry collaboration.

Secure CrowdStrike’s software supply chain and code-hosting environments by assessing GitHub organizations, open-source integrations, repositories, dependencies, and third-party packages. Implement repository guardrails, secret scanning, access controls, and automation; investigate supply-chain threats such as typosquatting and dependency confusion; promote secure coding and open-source compliance; and collaborate with engineering teams on security initiatives.

Build production security tooling and infrastructure using Terraform, Bash, Go, and Python. Partner with product engineers to design secure features, review Terraform and IAM configurations, automate security workflows, and advise teams on pragmatic vulnerability remediation. The role emphasizes developer enablement, scalable security libraries and tools, cloud security, containerization, and responsible AI use.

Secure Zapier’s production infrastructure by identifying and mitigating risks, hardening cloud environments, improving Terraform and CI/CD security, managing vulnerability and misconfiguration tools, enforcing least-privilege access, strengthening data governance, hardening Kubernetes images, and supporting incident response. The role collaborates with Platform, Engineering, and Security teams in a remote-first environment.