Senior Database Security Engineer – Guardium

Job Title: Senior Database Security Engineer – Guardium / Database Activity Monitoring
Job Location: Charlotte, NC / Jersey City, NJ / Plano, TX Local Only
Job Type:12+ Months contract on W2

• Hands-on Python, Unix/KSH shell scripting, PowerShell
• Hands-on Oracle, MSSQL, or other RDBMS
• Hands-on experience with product certifications
• Hands-on process automation
• Jira and Horizon

• CockroachDB, Cassandra, Postgres
• Cloud database experience (AWS or Azure)
• GitHub Copilot
• Prompt engineering
• Team Context (for recruiter screening reference)
• Elina's Database Security org splits into two functional areas: IAM/entitlements and activity monitoring. This req sits within activity monitoring, specifically the Guardium tooling piece of it.
• Pure engineering team, not operations. No on-call, not staffed 24/7. Builds and certifies solutions, hands off to ops with runbooks once adopted.
• Environment is primarily on-prem SQL Server today. Cloud (AWS RDS, Azure) is newer and still being scoped, not a deep production requirement yet, treat as a plus, not a bar.
• Heavy Jira usage, PI-planning driven.
• Elina wants hands-on engineers who build things themselves, not architects or people who talk strategy. This is the single most consistent filter across every opening she's released. Screen out candidates who lean on leadership/architecture framing unless they can also demonstrate daily hands-on work.
• Python is a hard requirement across nearly all of her openings, this one included.
• Current baseline consultant, Praful Kapadia, is the reference point for "what good looks like": hands-on, independent, security-minded.