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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Database Security Engineer - **Company:** Imperva, Inc. - **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States - **Salary:** $124,800.0 - $145,600.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Bash Shell, Software Bug Management, Databases, IBM DB2, Database Security, Python (Programming Language), Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle (Applications), Windows PowerShell, Teradata SQL, Data Logging, Database Performance, Database Monitoring, Restful APIs - **Published:** September 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c777951e-086f-4b4f-8cd4-b6d93a043e25 ## About the Role * 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. ## 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. ## 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