Database Security Engineer

Dexian; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexian seeks an experienced Database Security Engineer to manage and expand the Imperva DAM platform across MSSQL, DB2, Oracle and Teradata. You will ensure 100% monitoring coverage, optimize security baselines, and automate routine health checks in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Required is hands-on Imperva DAM expertise, strong database fundamentals, scripting ability (Python/PowerShell/Bash), and experience with vendor incident management to resolve complex platform issues.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Imperva DAM administration, engineering and troubleshooting.
• Deep knowledge of MSSQL, DB2, Oracle and Teradata.
• Ability to script automated health checks and reports.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily Imperva DAM operations, configurations and vendor escalations.
• Audit inventory and ensure full DAM coverage across target databases.
• Monitor health, detect anomalies, and ensure compliant logging.
• Tune policies, baselines, and respond to security drift.
• Automate health checks, reporting, and routine workflows.

Skills

Imperva DAM

DB administration

Automation scripting

Vendor & incident mgmt

Security mindset

Tools

Imperva DAM (SecureSphere)

Job description

Location : Richmond, VA

Role Overview: We are 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 contractor will ensure 100% monitoring coverage across critical database environments, automate routine operational tasks and refine security baselines.

Key Responsibilities

• Imperva Platform Management & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & Efficiency: Script and automate daily health checks, monitoring verification, reporting, and operational task workflows to streamline routine platform maintenance.

Required Qualifications & Technical Skills

• Imperva DAM Expertise: Direct, hands-on administration, engineering, and troubleshooting experience with Imperva DAM (SecureSphere).
• Strong Database Background: Deep foundational knowledge of database architectures, querying, logging mechanisms, and system catalogs across multiple enterprise platforms:
• MS SQL Server (MSSQL)
• IBM DB2
• Oracle
• Teradata
• Automation & Scripting: Demonstrated capability to automate operational tasks using scripts (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash, or REST APIs).
• Vendor & 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.

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support. Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals. To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/. Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.