Top Cyber Security Jobs in Richmond, VA

Leads cybersecurity capability advancement, governance, risk assessments, control monitoring, and remediation tracking. Analyzes cyber and fraud intelligence data to produce risk indicators, metrics, dashboards, and actionable insights. Drives automation for security workflows, presents risk trends to senior leaders, supports incident analysis, and mentors cybersecurity associates. The role requires expertise in cybersecurity frameworks, cloud environments, security tooling, cyber-enabled fraud investigations, database querying, programming, and regulated-industry risk management.

Leads cybersecurity risk reduction initiatives, capability assessments, control evaluations, and continuous improvement programs. Advises on cybersecurity tools, frameworks, threats, vulnerabilities, and remediation strategies while coordinating efforts across cyber programs. Mentors associates, communicates risks and control gaps to leadership, supports cybersecurity metrics and dashboards, and drives alignment with enterprise standards, business objectives, and regulatory expectations across multi-cloud environments.

Leads cybersecurity product strategy and roadmaps for enterprise network security services. Evaluates threats, risks, technologies, and build-versus-buy options; manages RFI/RFP processes; translates security objectives into product backlogs and engineering requirements; defines metrics and value propositions; advises executives; and mentors teams. The role partners extensively with engineering, operations, developers, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable security capabilities.

Leads cybersecurity governance, risk reduction, capability maturity, assessments, and continuous improvement across enterprise programs. Advises on security tools, frameworks, controls, threats, vulnerabilities, and remediation; coordinates cross-domain initiatives; communicates risks and recommendations to leadership; and manages and develops cybersecurity staff.

Designs and deploys enterprise IAM frameworks, automated security controls, cloud and on-premise security platforms, and vulnerability and compliance automation. Partners with software, cloud, and infrastructure teams to embed security by design, evaluates security technologies, establishes engineering standards, and supports investigations and troubleshooting. Requires cybersecurity experience, cloud expertise, automation skills, and preferred SailPoint ISC and IdentityIQ experience.

Leads cybersecurity capability advancement, third-party risk management, control and risk assessments, issue remediation, and cyber-risk reporting. Uses security frameworks, tools, automation, and data analysis to identify trends and mitigation opportunities. Presents insights to senior leaders, improves monitoring workflows, supports incident analysis, and mentors cybersecurity associates.

Lead Toast’s product and platform security organization, overseeing security platform engineering, application and cloud security, secure development practices, offensive security, vulnerability management, hardware security, and developer enablement. Partner with product and engineering leaders to establish secure defaults and scalable guardrails while reducing developer friction. Manage and grow a multi-team security engineering organization, expand security champions and tooling adoption, and align security posture with business and product priorities.

Provides proactive technical account management for strategic cybersecurity customers. Responsibilities include customer onboarding, platform training, health checks, issue resolution, escalation management, success planning, knowledge-base development, renewal-risk mitigation, and expansion support. The role serves as a customer advocate while collaborating with support, engineering, and sales teams. Candidates need cloud, application infrastructure, security, incident response, forensics, networking, and cloud architecture expertise, along with strong communication and customer-success skills.

Conduct application security assessments, discover and validate vulnerabilities, analyze complex codebases, build custom security tooling, perform threat modeling and architecture reviews, and deliver actionable findings to clients. Independently own assessment workstreams, develop proof-of-concept exploits, communicate technical conclusions, review team work, and contribute to security research, open-source tools, and technical writing.

Conduct application security assessments, discover and validate vulnerabilities, analyze code and architectures, perform threat modeling, build security tooling, and develop proof-of-concept exploits. Own scoped assessment components from discovery through client delivery, communicate findings and remediation guidance, and contribute to security research, open-source tools, and technical documentation. The role requires hands-on coding, vulnerability research, memory-corruption knowledge, operating-system familiarity, and independent technical investigation.

Triage bug bounty and vulnerability management reports, validate findings, assess severity, identify duplicates, and coordinate remediation through closure. Collaborate with PSIRT, engineering, legal, communications, customer success, and security teams. Support CVE assignments as a CNA representative, communicate with researchers and customers, maintain accurate records, monitor operational metrics, and improve vulnerability-handling procedures, runbooks, and documentation.

Lead cryptographic security assessments of protocols, libraries, applications, and high-assurance systems. Analyze advanced cryptographic constructions, identify design and implementation weaknesses, validate exploitability, and recommend remediation. Build testing and analysis tools, manage client delivery, write precise technical reports, mentor engineers, contribute to methodologies and services, and support open-source research and technical publications.

Build and lead a scalable application security and secure SDLC program across engineering teams. Establish policies, standards, tooling, vulnerability management, threat modeling, developer enablement, security champions, software supply-chain controls, and executive reporting. Partner with development, platform, DevOps, product, and leadership teams to integrate security into CI/CD, source control, build, release, and deployment workflows while supporting audits, advisories, incident response, and regulatory requirements.

Partner with sales teams to win strategic data security opportunities. Present technical solutions, gather customer requirements, lead product evaluations, configure solutions, and design evaluation test plans. The role requires extensive pre-sales experience, security and networking expertise, data protection and web technology knowledge, and collaboration across matrixed go-to-market and partner teams.

Operate application security across the SDLC, including secure design, code reviews, threat modeling, API security, DevSecOps tooling, CI/CD security gates, cloud and container security, vulnerability management, and risk communication. Partner with engineering teams on secure coding standards, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, mobile ecosystems, and responsible AI integration. Participate in an on-call rotation and develop scalable security platforms, paved roads, documentation, and developer training.

Lead insider risk detection engineering and investigations using EDR/XDR, UEBA, SIEM, and SOAR tools. Refine detection rules, reduce alert noise, close coverage gaps, manage investigations, develop playbooks, document evidence, mentor analysts, and collaborate discreetly with HR, Legal, business leaders, and executives. The role also requires investigative workflow automation using Python or JavaScript and ownership of scalable security processes.

Leads Motive’s global security compliance, privacy, risk, audit, customer trust, and AI governance functions. Builds integrated controls across ISO, SOC, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, and related frameworks; manages audits, privacy operations, international regulatory readiness, customer security reviews, policies, training, and human risk. The role also establishes AI-first automation, AI governance, and a path to FedRAMP while leading a distributed team and partnering across Legal, Engineering, Product, IT, Finance, Sales, and Customer Success.

Build and lead Motive’s globally distributed SOC, owning detection engineering, 24/7 incident response, threat hunting, intelligence, security analytics, endpoint protection, cloud and workload monitoring, and AI-driven automation. Establish operating models, coverage strategies, runbooks, telemetry platforms, incident command processes, and measurable detection and response capabilities across corporate and production environments.

The Senior Security Engineer will secure networks, systems, applications, databases, and cloud infrastructure; embed security controls into build pipelines; manage vulnerabilities and remediation; respond to incidents through on-call rotation; and promote security awareness across engineering. The role requires cloud security, infrastructure-as-code, application security, REST API protection, IAM, and tools including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Wiz, Exaforce, and CrowdStrike.

Leads enterprise data security and information governance by building data intake, catalog, marketplace, classification, lineage, and access-control programs. Translates privacy and security requirements into technical controls, self-service workflows, and governance documentation. Partners with Legal, InfoSec, engineering, product, and data teams to support compliant data use, AI/ML initiatives, and regulatory requirements including HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA. Measures adoption, turnaround times, and governance maturity across a global SaaS organization.

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

Monitor and analyze security events, lead incident response and employee investigations, conduct digital forensics, and communicate findings to technical, executive, legal, and compliance stakeholders. Build investigation scripts, runbooks, automated workflows, and security operations capabilities. Mentor engineers and support insider threat initiatives while collaborating across teams on cloud security and incident response.

The VP of Security will lead Engine’s security strategy, engineering, operations, AI security, corporate IT, and enterprise trust. Key priorities include building an AI security function, securing agent identities and AI gateways, leading AppSec, SecOps, and CloudSec, strengthening identity and access controls, managing corporate IT, supporting SOC 2 and PCI controls, and representing security to executives, the board, and enterprise customers.

Assess product and application architectures, develop threat models, identify security risks, and guide engineering teams on remediation. Promote security culture through training, mentoring, vulnerability management, and internal security initiatives. Build security tooling, automation, patterns, and workflows that embed secure-by-design practices across engineering. Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to secure complex, large-scale cloud systems.

Assesses customer Falcon environments, identifies security-standard misalignment, recommends remediation, and communicates directly with customers. Documents and resolves issues within SLAs, prepares service reports, partners with internal teams, and coordinates troubleshooting. The role requires cybersecurity experience, customer-facing communication, knowledge of Windows, Linux, and macOS, threat detection and incident response expertise, relevant education or experience, and cybersecurity certifications. Government customer requirements may include periodic drug testing and background and fingerprint checks.