Database Security Engineer

Role Overview:

• Seeking a Database Security Engineer with strong experience in enterprise database security, activity monitoring, policy management, troubleshooting, and automation.
• The role will focus on monitoring and securing database platforms, ensuring security policies are properly applied, identifying and addressing policy drift, and supporting database security operations.

Top Skills:

• Oracle
• SQL
• DB2
• Teradata
• Imperva – Primary tool
• Database Activity Monitoring
• Database Security
• Enterprise Database Security
• Python, PowerShell, or Bash scripting
• Policy Monitoring and Controls
• Troubleshooting

Job Description:

• Role Overview: Client is seeking an experienced Database Security Engineer with a strong database administration background to manage, optimize, and expand our enterprise Imperva Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) platform.
• This candidate will ensure 100% monitoring coverage across critical database environments, automate routine operational tasks and refine security baselines.
• Key Responsibilities:Imperva Platform Management and Support: Manage daily operations, troubleshooting, configuration, and maintenance of the Imperva DAM environment. Serve as the primary technical point of contact for vendor escalations and support tickets.
• Scope Assurance and Inventory Auditing: Partner closely with platform DBAs to continuously reconcile database inventories against DAM coverage, ensuring all target assets across MSSQL, DB2, Oracle, and Teradata are actively monitored without blind spots.
• Operational Health and Anomaly Detection: Monitor platform telemetry to detect health anomalies, agent outages, or logging drops. Ensure continuous, active activity recording across all targeted databases.
• Policy Optimization and Security Baseline Governance: Apply a strong cybersecurity mindset to review policy drift, evaluate security baselines, and recommend actionable rule adjustments to align with enterprise security standards and industry best practices.
• Automation and Efficiency: Script and automate daily health checks, monitoring verification, reporting, and operational task workflows to streamline routine platform maintenance.
• Required Qualifications and Technical Skills:Imperva DAM Expertise: Direct, hands-on administration, engineering, and troubleshooting experience with Imperva DAM (SecureSphere).
• Automation and Scripting: Demonstrated capability to automate operational tasks using scripts (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash, or REST APIs).
• Vendor and Incident Management: Proven experience working with vendors for technical support to resolve complex platform issues, upgrades, and bug fixes.
• Database Security Mindset: Familiarity with database auditing principles, baseline governance, policy drift resolution, and threat/anomaly detection.