Senior Database Security Engineer – Guardium / Database Activity Monitoring

Job Title: Senior Database Security Engineer Guardium / Database Activity Monitoring
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Interview Process: 2 virtual rounds; onsite interview may also be requested

Job Location: Charlotte, NC / Jersey City, NJ / Plano, TX
Job Type:12+ Months contract

Note to Vendor to find a right candidate for this job:

Please focus on hands-on IBM Guardium / Database Security Engineers with strong experience in Guardium provisioning, patching, version upgrades, reporting, Python, Unix/KSH, PowerShell, Oracle/MSSQL/RDBMS, and process automation. Candidates should have real implementation experience rather than only monitoring or IAM exposure and must be comfortable working 3 days onsite in Charlotte, NJ, or Plano, TX.

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This is a Guardium-specific engineering role within Elina's Database Security Engineering org, sitting on the Database Activity Monitoring workstream. Unlike the org's other two current openings, this one is explicitly about the Guardium product itself: provisioning it, patching it, running version upgrades, and building reporting on top of it. It is not a general entitlement/IAM role and not a general "database activity monitoring automation" role, it's hands-on Guardium ownership.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on Python, Unix/KSH shell scripting, PowerShell
• Hands-on Oracle, MSSQL, or other RDBMS
• Hands-on experience with product certifications
• Hands-on process automation
• Jira and Horizon

Desired Qualifications

• CockroachDB, Cassandra, Postgres
• Cloud database experience (AWS or Azure)
• GitHub Copilot
• Prompt engineering
• Team Context (for recruiter screening reference)
• Elina's Database Security org splits into two functional areas: IAM/entitlements and activity monitoring. This req sits within activity monitoring, specifically the Guardium tooling piece of it.
• Pure engineering team, not operations. No on-call, not staffed 24/7. Builds and certifies solutions, hands off to ops with runbooks once adopted.
• Environment is primarily on-prem SQL Server today. Cloud (AWS RDS, Azure) is newer and still being scoped, not a deep production requirement yet, treat as a plus, not a bar.
• Heavy Jira usage, PI-planning driven.
• Elina wants hands-on engineers who build things themselves, not architects or people who talk strategy. This is the single most consistent filter across every opening she's released. Screen out candidates who lean on leadership/architecture framing unless they can also demonstrate daily hands-on work.
• Python is a hard requirement across nearly all of her openings, this one included.
• Current baseline consultant, Praful Kapadia, is the reference point for "what good looks like": hands-on, independent, security-minded.