Database Security Engineer

Strategic Staffing Solutions; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions in Richmond, VA is seeking a Database Security Engineer to manage Imperva DAM, ensuring full monitoring coverage across MSSQL, DB2, Oracle, and Teradata. The role emphasizes automation, health checks, and collaboration with DBAs and cybersecurity teams.

The contractor will be responsible for troubleshooting, policy alignment, and upgrades, with a focus on reducing outages and maintaining security baselines in a complex enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering Imperva DAM/SecureSphere.
• Strong DB knowledge with MSSQL, DB2, Oracle, and Teradata.
• Experience monitoring and maintaining enterprise security platforms.
• Scripting experience using Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Experience working with vendors on escalations, upgrades, and bug fixes.
• Experience in change-controlled enterprise environments.
• Strong cybersecurity mindset and policy governance.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to coordinate with offshore resources and multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage, optimize, and expand Imperva DAM across databases.
• Ensure 100% DAM monitoring coverage and health of the environment.
• Automate routine operational tasks and health checks.
• Serve as primary technical contact for Imperva escalations and vendor issues.
• Collaborate with DBAs to reconcile inventories and monitor gaps.
• Monitor MSSQL, DB2, Oracle, and Teradata environments.
• Follow change management processes before implementing changes.
• Partner with cybersecurity, data protection, and infrastructure teams to maintain security monitoring.
• Participate in knowledge transfer and assume increasing ownership of the DAM environment.

Skills

Imperva DAM

MSSQL

DB2

Oracle

Teradata

Python

PowerShell

Bash

REST APIs

Change Management

Tools

Imperva SecureSphere

Job description

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.