Database Security Engineer

Job Title: Database Security Engineer

Location: Richmond, VA

Duration: 12 months

Pay Rate: $60 - $70/HR (W2 Only)

Completion of the Glider assessment is required as part of the candidate evaluation process

Job/Role Description:

• This role will manage, optimize, support, and expand an enterprise Imperva Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) platform across critical database environments.
• This position will focus on ensuring 100% database monitoring coverage, maintaining the operational health of the DAM environment, automating routine operational tasks, and refining database security baselines.
• Manage daily operations, troubleshooting, configuration, and maintenance of the Imperva DAM/SecureSphere environment.
• Serve as a primary technical point of contact for Imperva vendor escalations, support tickets, platform issues, upgrades, and bug fixes.
• Partner with platform Database Administrators (DBAs) to continuously reconcile database inventories against DAM coverage and identify monitoring gaps or blind spots.
• Ensure targeted Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), IBM DB2, Oracle, and Teradata database environments are actively monitored and continuously recording database activity.
• Monitor platform telemetry to identify health anomalies, agent outages, logging drops, monitoring failures, and other operational issues.
• Review database security policies and established security baselines to identify policy drift, inconsistencies, and potential security gaps across the enterprise database environment.
• Recommend and implement appropriate policy and rule adjustments to align database monitoring with enterprise security standards and established security practices.
• Review database activity and logging to identify anomalies or potentially suspicious behavior requiring additional investigation or escalation.
• Script and automate daily health checks, monitoring verification, reporting, and other operational workflows to improve efficiency and reduce manual platform maintenance.
• Utilize Python, PowerShell, Bash, REST APIs, or similar technologies to automate database security monitoring and operational activities.
• Partner with offshore resources and other technical teams to facilitate operational changes while maintaining accountability for the accuracy and effectiveness of those changes.
• Follow established change management processes and ensure appropriate approvals and sign-offs are obtained before implementing changes within the environment.
• Participate in troubleshooting efforts involving enterprise database performance to determine whether database monitoring tools or processes are contributing to performance issues.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, data protection, identity, database, infrastructure, vendor, and other technical teams to maintain effective database security monitoring.
• Participate in knowledge transfer with existing subject matter experts and assume increasing ownership of the Database Activity Monitoring environment.

Required Qualifications

• Direct, hands-on experience administering, engineering, configuring, and troubleshooting Imperva Database Activity Monitoring (DAM/SecureSphere).
• Strong database administration or database engineering background with deep foundational knowledge of enterprise database architectures, querying, logging mechanisms, and system catalogs.
• Experience working across multiple enterprise database platforms, including Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), IBM DB2, Oracle, and Teradata.
• Strong understanding of Database Activity Monitoring concepts, database security monitoring, database auditing, and database logging.
• Experience monitoring and maintaining the operational health of enterprise database security or monitoring platforms.
• Experience identifying and resolving monitoring gaps, agent outages, logging failures, policy drift, and security baseline inconsistencies.
• Familiarity with database auditing principles, security baseline governance, policy drift resolution, and threat/anomaly detection.
• Demonstrated scripting and automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, REST APIs, or similar technologies.
• Experience automating operational tasks such as health checks, monitoring verification, reporting, or platform maintenance workflows.
• Experience working directly with technology vendors to troubleshoot complex platform issues, manage support escalations, perform upgrades, and resolve product defects or bugs.
• Experience working within formal change management processes and controlled or highly audited enterprise environments.
• Strong cybersecurity mindset with the ability to identify database security gaps and recommend improvements to monitoring policies and security controls.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to maintain consistent security policies and monitoring coverage across complex enterprise environments.
• Experience collaborating with DBAs, cybersecurity teams, vendors, offshore resources, and other technical stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Ability to participate in occasional after-hours troubleshooting efforts when necessary.
• Completion of the Glider assessment is required as part of the candidate evaluation process.