Database Security Engineer

About the Role

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.

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.

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: Microsoft 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.

Location

Hybrid Richmond, VA only

Contract

1 year

Company Overview

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

• Supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans.
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program) and a 401K program with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• HSA (Health Savings Account) on the HDHP plan.
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• On-demand training program, certification prep, and access to technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months of tenure.
• Certification discounts and perks for associations like CompTIA and IIBA.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.