Database Monitoring Administrator; Imperva, SQL, DB, Teradata)

S3/Strategic Staffing Solutions has a Database Monitoring Administration opportunity for a leading Financial Services client in Richmond, VA on a hybrid basis. Please read further if you are interested in joining a leading organization!

Title:

Database Monitoring Administrator

Pay Rate Range: $60-70/hr w2

Qualifications &

Description:

** Glider test will be required with submission**

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 (Secure Sphere).

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

Automation & Scripting:
Demonstrated capability to automate operational tasks using scripts (e.g., Python, Power Shell, 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.

Notes:

This is a Database Administrator / Database Activity Monitoring role supporting highly audited database environments.

The candidate will need a strong database background and experience monitoring database activity, enforcing policies, identifying policy drift, and following strict procedures.

Technical Requirements

• Experience with database activity monitoring
• Experience with Imperva — will be used for monitoring

Experience with:

• SQL
• DB2
• Ability to monitor database activity from end to end
• Ability to ensure policies are consistently enforced across databases
• Logging across the database
• Not about database prevention
• Solid security mindset with automation or scripting background
• Need to make sure there is no policy drift and vendor management

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor database activity across the environment.
• Use Imperva to identify and monitor database activity.
• Ensure database policies are consistently applied.
• Identify and address policy drift.
• Follow proper procedures in a highly audited environment.
• Partner with offshore teams supporting database administration.
• Review activity and elevate anything that appears suspicious or out of compliance.
• Maintain a strong “see something, say something” mindset.
• Strong attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a highly regulated and audited environment
• Strong understanding of database security and policy enforcement
• Willingness to follow established procedures
• Ability to identify inconsistencies or policy violations
• Comfortable collaborating with offshore teams
• Strong communication and escalation skills