Data Security Engineer (DAM) – Database Activity Monitoring

CPX; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 470,000; Full time

Job summary

CPX is seeking a Data Security Engineer (DAM) to engineer and operate Database Activity Monitoring controls across on-premises and cloud databases. You will ensure visibility, alerting and integrity of privileged database activity while supporting incident response and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities include deploying DAM agents, configuring monitoring policies, and integrating with SIEM, PAM and ITSM.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, information systems, engineering or equivalent.
• Postgraduate qualification in information/cyber security is an advantage.
• Imperva DAM/SecureSphere or equivalent platform certification/training likely required
• Microsoft/Azure database or security certification beneficial
• CISSP, Security+ or equivalent (preferred)
• Database administration training for SQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL (advantage)
• Imperva DAM or equivalent monitoring platform
• SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL and cloud database fundamentals
• Database activity policies, privileged monitoring and anomaly detection
• SIEM/SOAR, PAM and ITSM integrations
• Log integrity, retention, troubleshooting and evidence handling

Responsibilities

• Deploy, administer and monitor DAM agents and/or collectors across on-premises and cloud databases.
• Maintain accurate database inventory and coverage mapping; identify unmonitored instances.
• Configure monitoring policies for logins, DDL/DML/DCL, privilege changes and sensitive data access.
• Maintain privileged database user monitoring with full session visibility.
• Tune anomaly detection baselines to reduce false positives and improve detection.
• Configure real-time alerts for unauthorized access, privilege escalation, after-hours activity, and policy violations.
• Protect audit trail integrity through tamper resistance and separation of duties.
• Maintain retention, archival and access controls for DAM logs.
• Integrate DAM alerts with SIEM/SOAR and ITSM; validate routing and playbooks.
• Integrate with PAM to correlate privileged sessions.
• Monitor platform health, throughput, latency and storage capacity.
• Investigate alerts, preserve evidence and support incident response.
• Produce coverage, alert quality, and maturity reports.
• Perform configuration assessments and maintain runbooks and disaster recovery procedures.
• Support platform upgrades and onboarding of new database technologies.
• Provide technical workshops and knowledge transfer to operational teams.

Skills

Imperva DAM/SecureSphere certs

Microsoft/Azure security cert

CISSP/Security+ (preferred)

Database administration training (SQL/

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS, cybersecurity, IT, IS, engineering

Postgraduate qualification in information/cyber security

Tools

Imperva DAM or equivalent monitoring

SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL fundamentals

SIEM/SOAR, PAM, ITSM integrations

Log integrity and evidence handling

Job description

CPX is seeking a Data Security Engineer (DAM) to engineer and operate Database Activity Monitoring controls across on-premises and cloud databases. You will ensure visibility, alerting and integrity of privileged database activity while supporting incident response and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities include deploying DAM agents, configuring monitoring policies, and integrating with SIEM, PAM and ITSM.