Security Tools Lead — Threat Detection & AI Security

RIVA Solutions, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off / Sick Leave

Health, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Life Insurance

401K with Company Matching

HSA/FSA Spending Accounts

Long- and Short-Term Disability

Pet Insurance

Wellness Program Initiatives

RIVA Flex

Additional Workplace Benefits

Job summary

RIVA Solutions, Inc. is seeking an experienced Security Tools Engineer Lead to manage ITA cybersecurity tools and lead threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response across the enterprise. The role emphasizes secure configurations, tool tuning, and collaboration with ESOC to protect the ITA environment.

You will oversee Web Application Firewall policy refinement and contribute to AI platform security governance, reporting on security posture and tool performance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in enterprise cybersecurity operations.
• Experience supporting security operations including threat detection, incident response, vulnerability assessment, and authenticated infrastructure and web app scanning.
• Managing enterprise cybersecurity tools (SIEM/EDR/Vulnerability mgmt) with configuration, tuning, monitoring, and support.
• Strong understanding of application and infrastructure security, including security control implementation.
• Ability to communicate security posture to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• U.S. Citizenship and Secret Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Manage and sustain ITA cybersecurity tools, including user provisioning, access controls, configuration, tuning, and tool performance.
• Manage threat detection and response capabilities to protect the enterprise environment.
• Resolve security tool tickets involving functionality, access, configuration, and performance issues.
• Perform credentialed vulnerability scanning across all in-scope systems.
• Scan internet-facing and internal web apps for vulnerabilities.
• Conduct security reviews of new software before deployment and reassess updates.
• Tune Web Application Firewall rules and policies per ESOC guidance.
• Respond to ESOC incident response tickets per priorities.
• Support secure configuration, monitoring, access controls, data protection, and security controls for AI platforms.
• Integrate AI platform logging into enterprise security monitoring and detection of anomalies.
• Provide security input on AI configurations, data handling, access controls, governance.
• Produce regular reporting on tool capacity, performance, and overall security posture.
• Support contractual security tool availability and coordinate corrective actions.

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Vulnerability assessment

Security tooling

Tool administration

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Vulnerability management

Web application firewall

Job description

RIVA Solutions, Inc. is seeking an experienced Security Tools Engineer Lead to manage ITA cybersecurity tools and lead threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response across the enterprise. The role emphasizes secure configurations, tool tuning, and collaboration with ESOC to protect the ITA environment.

You will oversee Web Application Firewall policy refinement and contribute to AI platform security governance, reporting on security posture and tool performance.