Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Richmond, VA

The role involves leading cybersecurity product management by developing strategies, collaborating with stakeholders, managing projects, and mentoring teams to enhance security solutions.

Serve as the primary security consultant for a line of business, advising on infrastructure, application, data, network, and access security. Lead security risk assessments, architecture reviews, escalate/manage cyber risk, coordinate cross-functional security solutions, support executives with security posture updates, and provide guidance on modern platforms including cloud, containers, APIs, and generative AI security.

Provide technical oversight, assessments, and effective challenge of endpoint security controls and operations. Assess risks, draft senior-level reports, coordinate remediation, advise stakeholders, and stay current on emerging threats. Mentor teams and manage multiple programs to improve endpoint security posture.

Lead application security for products by performing threat modeling, manual secure code reviews, and penetration testing. Collaborate with engineers to remediate defects, build AppSec automation and tooling, secure cloud/containerized applications, and drive bug-bounty responses to harden platform security.

Perform deep security analysis of endpoint products and sensors: threat modeling, source-code review, exploit-style testing (including kernel components), reproduce/validate bug bounty findings, collaborate with developers to fix vulnerabilities, and build tooling/automation to improve security workflows.

Lead AI security strategy and guardrails, design and review AI gateways and tooling, scale InfoSec review processes, reduce AI-driven security noise, drive remediation and investigations, and mentor security and platform engineers.

As a Security Architect, you will build secure agent runtimes and systems, ensuring robust security capabilities in agentic AI solutions while conducting security evaluations.

The role involves overseeing cybersecurity responsibilities within Capital One's Financial Services, ensuring risk management and process improvement. You'll collaborate with teams, manage projects, and deliver presentations to stakeholders.

Own and architect Forward's security technology stack across AppSec, SecOps, and GRC. Design integrations with Engineering/IT, lead tool evaluations and PoCs, automate controls with infrastructure-as-code and detection-as-code, build centralized logging/SIEM and identity governance, align architecture to security frameworks, mentor security engineers, and support incident response and remediation.

Owner of Vannevar's authentication and authorization platform: build tenant-isolated auth systems, self-service user/group/permission admin UI, tooling to visualize and validate access, feature-flag and platform management interfaces, and shared authorization capabilities across products.

Lead and mature Affirm's third-party security risk program by designing controls, automating GRC workflows, evaluating third-party/cloud security, building integrations and dashboards, and advising stakeholders. Drive automation using Python and agentic coding tools, operate orchestration across systems, manage a portfolio of risk reviews, and establish metrics, processes, and reporting to scale security risk management.

Lead product security across the SDLC: threat modeling, secure architecture, vulnerability management, security testing and remediation, CI/CD/DevSecOps controls, AI security integration, bug bounty triage, developer training, and cross-functional security consulting to scale secure-by-design practices.

Lead and grow a Security Platform engineering team to design and operate centralized identity and access services (IdP integrations, SSO, authorization frameworks). Define roadmap, partner cross-functionally, and drive adoption of secure-by-default access controls across products.

Lead and grow a security engineering team to design and operate cloud-native security controls, drive DevSecOps practices, conduct threat modeling and incident response, partner cross-functionally on security roadmaps, and ensure compliance with frameworks (NIST, SOC 2, ISO, etc.). Responsible for vulnerability management, identity and access controls, observability/SIEM, and security automation.

The Security Engineer will manage Liftoff's SIEM, lead the adoption of AI-augmented SOC tools, triage alerts, and improve incident response processes while collaborating on various security functions.

This role involves owning the security architecture for AI platforms on GCP, designing guardrails, and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines. Candidates should have extensive experience in cloud security, specifically with GCP services, Kubernetes security, and AI/ML security practices.

Assess and harden software supply chain security by performing technical assessments, designing and implementing security controls and monitoring for build pipelines, investigating systems for vulnerabilities, creating tooling to address gaps, and leading cross-team projects to improve CrowdStrike's product security posture.

Lead customer trust and security governance: oversee contract reviews, security questionnaires, and escalations; partner with Legal, Sales, Product, and Procurement; develop templates, policies, playbooks, metrics, and awareness programs; and apply automation and AI to scale workflows and reporting.

Lead and mentor a small IT security engineering team to deploy and operate enterprise-grade Zero Trust security across networks, endpoints, applications, and cloud. Drive Customer Zero initiatives, manage cross-functional security projects, optimize policies (SSL decryption, segmentation, access control), and serve as an internal subject-matter expert.

As a Sr. Product Security Engineer, you will focus on network security, identifying gaps, architecting solutions, and leading cross-functional security initiatives.

Lead detection, response, and digital forensics for security incidents. Monitor alerts, perform technical analysis, act as Incident Commander, build automation and runbooks, mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-team investigations and insider threat work.

Lead assessment and mitigation of security risks in the virtualization stack. Build threat models, rubrics, and defenses; partner with kernel, virtualization, and provisioning teams to design and implement mitigations; mentor engineers, manage vulnerability backlog, and promote security best practices across product teams.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud security controls for Vercel's platform. Harden infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and policy enforcement, secure CI/CD pipelines, perform threat modeling and risk analysis, improve monitoring and incident response, and build platform-level security tooling in collaboration with platform and infrastructure teams.

Design, maintain, and extend abuse detection and prevention systems for GitLab's SaaS platform. Serve as a core maintainer of a Ruby on Rails monolith, build anomaly detection and agentic AI mitigations, automate abuse response, collaborate with peer engineering and security teams, and produce runbooks and operational documentation.

Design, implement, and operationally support enterprise security platforms across cloud, endpoint, identity, network, and SaaS. Lead detection, telemetry, vulnerability management, automation, and incident escalation. Partner with stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable services, improve security posture and Zero Trust objectives, and mentor engineers while maintaining documentation, KPIs, and on-call support.