Principal Security Engineer

  • GENWORTH
  • Richmond, Virginia
  • 10/31/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Genworth seeks a Principal Security Engineer to safeguard critical financial and insurance platforms supporting long-term care and protection products. You will own the design and implementation of secure architectures, drive threat modeling and risk assessments, and lead incident response for complex events. Partnering with engineering, IT, and compliance, you'll embed security-by-design, strengthen cloud and application defenses, and ensure regulatory alignment. You'll mentor teams, advance DevSecOps practices, and deliver innovative security solutions that protect customers' financial futures.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement secure architecture for Genworth's financial platforms and insurance products
  • Lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and security reviews for new and existing systems
  • Engineer and maintain security controls, including IAM, encryption, logging, and endpoint protection
  • Collaborate with software, infrastructure, and compliance teams to embed security-by-design
  • Own incident response for complex security events and guide root-cause remediation
  • Develop security standards, policies, and reference architectures aligned to regulatory needs
  • Mentor engineers and champion secure coding, Dev
  • Sec
  • Ops, and cloud security best practices
  • Evaluate and integrate advanced security tools and automation to improve detection and response

Required Skills

  • Cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • Identity and access management (IAM)
  • Network and infrastructure security
  • Application security and secure coding
  • Threat modeling and risk assessment
  • Security incident response and forensics
  • Security architecture and design
  • Dev
  • Sec
  • Ops and CI/CD security tooling
  • SIEM, logging, and monitoring platforms
  • Encryption, key management, and PKI